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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: ARTICLE
Message-ID: <24338@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 88 18:55:58 GMT
References: <8811071544.AA29817@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Pete Lyall)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <8811071544.AA29817@decwrl.dec.com> akermanis@trco01.dec.com writes:
>All I did was reshuffle CC3DISK around and BINGO, everything works fine
>now. This bug I still do not understand. Even when all I had was just the
>Floppy controller plugged in many moons ago, I would come across this problem.
>Any thoughts on this problem or cure ?

This is the now infamous 'boot list order bug'. It's alleged to
be caused by some clocking/gating problems combined with the
positioning of some modules (notably RBF drivers) in memory. You have
found the only current workaraound. Lots of the OS9 heavies have been
studying this one for over a year.

Pete

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