On 18 Apr 2001, at 20:04, Bjoern Hoffmann wrote:
> I am running Prim95 mostly under a Win2K, but sometimes I use the
> dualboot option for a red hat 7 system on the same machine.
>
> Then I start the mprime out of the win2k directory. Is there any
> problem with it? The system mostly says then something like this:
>
> Error reading intermediate file: pC362401
> Renaming intermediate file qC362401 to pC362401.
The most likely thing that is happening is that when linux shuts down
it is not waiting long enough for mprime to finish writing the
savefile before it terminates the process.
Try issuing the shell command "killall mprime && sleep 5" before
shutting the system down. This will stop all instances of mprime
which happen to be running & allow 5 seconds for them to wrap up
cleanly before the shell prompt returns.
The other thing which may be a problem is that the linux installation
is somehow misreading or miswriting the Windows filesystem. This is
rather more likely to happen with NTFS than FAT or FAT32. You should
particularly suspect this if you have upgraded the linux kernel to
v2.4; I haven't found any problems in this respect, I do read FAT
filesystems occasionally but no longer dual boot.
The problem could also occur when starting mprime from linux if
Windows shut down Prime95 untidily.
Regards
Brian Beesley
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