Booting up and LSI 11/23

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Tue Sep 1 19:54:26 1998

>at $ prompt type in drive name
>
> $ DK0

What sort of media are you actually trying to boot? Why do you think
it's got a valid boot-block?

>It now takes me back to the _at_ prompt.
>Type in 0g
>
> _at_0g
>
>and I get 000002 back.
>I'm assuming that the '2' I get back is an error of some sort. Can anyone
>shed any light
>on this one for me.

Nope, it's not an error - it's the address the CPU stopped at. It's
certainly the case that at address 0, there's a "HALT" instruction
(i.e. the contents are zero.) This is very possibly because the boot
block you read into location 0 was all zeroes - i.e. not a boot block
at all.

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