This thread is a pain to watch.. people really should understand the meaning of RTFM..
Sorry to be so blunt but there is really no excuse for being dis-regardless of other people's efforts and time. So this is yet another example of 'I know what was in the manual but decided to do it differently and now i am stuck!' Kudos to Peter for keeping his calm.. Jan Rinze. (topposting intentionally) 2010/3/19 David <[email protected]>: > In article <[email protected]>, Peter Howkins > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:51:48PM +0000, David wrote: >> > In article <[email protected]>, Peter Howkins >> > > Did this also fail in the previous set of instructions, when I >> > > said do this ... ? >> > >> > Yes. I didn't think to mention it at the time. In fact, I wondered >> > if you'd just assumed I'd do the << aclocal automake autoconf >> >> > prior to the "./configure" and didn't bother writing it. > >> Nope, this should have worked 'out of the box', as such it already >> indicates something is up, so let's sort this out first. > >> Start from fresh directory and follow the instructions from my post >> before, if it still fails at the configure stage, can you give me the >> output of the following 3 commands. > > I assume you mean the post timed at 17:04. > > No, it didn't fail. > >> >pwd >> >ls -l configure >> >whoami > >> Also, are you using the commandline 'tar xvfz rpcemu-0.8.6.tar.gz' >> command from the instructions, or some other method of decompressing? > > I used Archive Mounter - tend to use the GUI where a method exists. > > Might I suggest that if there is a difference in the outcome (which my > experience suggests there is), you ought to stress the need to do it > precisely as you say because numpties like me moving from RO to Linux > are almost certainly going to try and avoid the command line where an > alternative easier GUI method exists. > > Incidentally, the 'make' resulted in lots of warnings. I've saved the > results (8.6KB) in case you want to see them. > > When I test run it, I still get the RO error "abort on instruction > fetch at &02193040" - but surprisingly, no warning about !Boot not > having been run! > > And still no Ctrl-End menu. > > Adding in the 256MB blank hard drive image (using command line > 'unzip'), I get the !BOOT not found message, as well as "undefined > instruction at &02195718" > > Copy splug.bas & uniboot/zip into HostFS; create !Sparkplug & unzip > !Boot into Drive 4. Shutdown & quit; run again: gets as far as startup > (splash) screen without errors then just quits with Linux error: > > "RPCemu error: Bad opcode 36 73692029 at 219304C" > > Hope this account is some help in understanding what's going wrong. > > -- > > David - david atcost ukpoets fullstop net > > _______________________________________________ > Rpcemu mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu > _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
