Re: A7000+ Installation

Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> for those who where having trouble with booting up A7000 machines, i've 
> made a test version of the boot32 bootloader for you all to test; its a 
> slightly enhanced version that tries to be a bit smarter :)
> --
> and ought to have fixed the problem. It was a problem with the positioning 
> of the DRAM video memory. The machine i got data from in PR 18883 showed 
> that it used a small 2*1Mb SIMM in the last slot and i wasn't taking that 
> into consideration. So even if it fails to boot (knock knock ... hope it 
> will boot!) it still is a cleaner start :)

Thanks for the update.  Although I receive different error messages, it 
still won't boot.  My A7000+ has an additional 4MB Ram (I'm still 
getting around to grabbing a larger stick).

Here's the output from booting:
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Booting InstKern (howto = 0x0)
Got 378 memory pages each 4 kilobytes to mess with.

Getting memory configuration

Used 472 kb DRAM at 0x1c38a000 for video memory
Top 1Mb section is not aligned on a MB; remove very small DIMMS?

Press SPACE or click mouse to continue
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Should I remove the stick of ram and try again?  I know I should try but 
I don't want to open up the machine unless it's completely necessary.

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