Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!arisia!cutting From: cutting@bopp.PARC.xerox.com (Doug Cutting) Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: 1186 SystemTool problem Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 00:23:24 GMT References: Sender: news@arisia.Xerox.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 28 In-reply-to: tim@eusip.ed.ac.uk's message of 7 Nov 89 21:25:45 GMT In article tim@eusip.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes: The 1186es in use here used to have a (modified?) version of the Lisp Installation Utility on the 0 partition of the disk, which could be used to copy Sysouts &c. I recently had to reformat my machine's disk, and I decided to install the SystemTool accoring to the 1186 User's Guide. The SystemTool _appears_ to work properly: I can fetch a Sysout from the net onto the Lisp2 partition, and then copy it onto Lisp. However, if I try to boot the Lisp partition, the cursor code sits on 199 indefinitely, which I think is `reading microcode'. There is a Lisp microcode file on the volume. If I floppy boot the machine, and then copy and expand the sysout `by hand' with the Installer, it works fine. But I would much rather use the SystemTool, especially since I can't work out how to get the Installer onto the hard disk! As I recall the SystemTool assumes that your microcode is on the volume named LispFiles, but the standard EUISP partitioning does not include a volume by this name, breaking the SystemTool. If I'm correct, you either need to repartition your disk so that it has a volume named LispFiles, or you have to find the Installer boot file. I think it may have been delivered with the Koto 1.0 release in the UK because the SystemTool didn't yet work on 1186s. All of the above may be wrong. It's been a while. Doug