Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fernwood!portal!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc From: cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: UUCP HELP!!!! (again...but another problem this time) Message-ID: <18d60d86.ARN0ebd@czaeap.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 91 21:49:10 GMT References: Reply-To: cpc@czaeap.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Organization: Very Messy. :) Lines: 55 In article , Silk Merchant writes: > We are trying hard to set up an Amiga 2500/30 with UUCP so we can connect with > a Unix through the RS232 port directly, without a modem. The problem is that > after we make the alterations to the startup files we get the following message > on bootup: "EXECUTE: No K directive > execute failed return code 20" > We have not made any alterations to the files distributed with the program. > Any help anyone out there can give would be really useful. Or if someone could > send us their startup files, we could try to work from them. Thanks much. > Jonathan > c/o silk@dorm.rutgers.edu > #! rnews 1177 > Path: aminet!gdc!portal!fernwood!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-bar This sounds a-lot like a problem I've had here! I have a non-autobooting hard-drive (WB1.2 ROMS to be exact) and I have to boot off floppy and then transfer to the HD after MOUNTing it... Now, I ran into this little nasty not too long after that. I'm not sure if it's a bug or just something strange, but I cleared it up by passing a "junk" paramter to the execute... (HD Startup-sequence) .KEY junk/a .BRA { .KET } fastmemfirst setpatch SetClock opt load FF >NIL: [etc] This seemed to clean it up nicely... (From df0: s/startup-sequence) echo "Control-C if DH0: has already spun up..." <- because drive needs to failat 11 spin up... wait 5 echo "Mounting DH0:, if improperly dismounted this may require mount verification." mount DH0: dh0:c/assign t: dh0:t dh0:c/defdisk dh0: echo "System INIT..." execute dh0:s/startup-sequence fart ^ Junk parameter Best O luck! ========================================================================== Chris Cebelenski UUCP: portal.com!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc The Red Mage : cpc@czaeap.UUCP // "Amiga - The way REAL people compute" \X/ Sex, and Drugs, and Rock and Roll-Playing! (DEVO RULES) ========================================================================== NOTE: Due to brain dead mailers, this message can *NOT* be REPLIED to, to reach me you MUST send a NEW message. Sorry!