Hello!
I don't doubt something is wrong hardware wise.... I'm pretty clueless about how to track it down. What I find interesting, and strange, is that MiNT is the environment it chokes in, and primarily at boot-up. MagiC, Geneva, or built in TOS don't appear to suffer....
That TOS work don't mean anything if you have a hardware problem. MiNT do some things in a different way, for example allocating memory from the top and from the bottom, TOS don't do so. So if you have memory problems in the top area of you RAM you probably didn't ever see this under TOS. Just as an example.
If your stability depend on the temperature of your hardware it's for sure very likely a hardware problem.
heck of alot faster too, in ways that one would think tax the bus even more than MiNT's methods. I.E. ethernet over ROM or SCSI, or moving a pile of files around on disk.
What filesystem do you use? How many cache you spent FreeMiNT? Do you use the write-back feature (something similiar to the wbdaemon of MagiC)?
The error messages I get most are: Bus Error $02 Address Error $03 Line F emulation $?? (forget the number now) Illegal CoProcessor instruction
Do you run a memory test on your system? Ciao ...Frank -- ATARI FALCON 040 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------------------- http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/ e-Mail: fnaumann@freemint.de