Milan problem

[PeterS]

At the weekend my Milan crashed a lot, I think the psu is going faulty but that isn't the real problem.

I have accidentally put something in mint.cnf that is stopping it running init and so it can't start xaaes.

The easiest solution would be to boot into TOS but when I try that it gives Exception# 2.

I tried an old mint version from the command line but that fails because there is no moose.adi only moosew.adi. Not had this issue before.

I tried a recovery floppy with a TOS image but that seems to be corrupt because it cannot load when I press F9 during boot up.

I'm stuck at the moment.

[jfl]

Can you boot into TOS with everything disabled?

[PeterS]

No.

I have managed to get back in to mint. I tried another hd, it didn't work earlier but has worked this time.

From there I was able to edit mint.cnf on the original drive.

It does look like TOS is corrupted in some way. I may need to rember how to re-flash it.

[PeterS]

The issue with init is that if the file is not found, then Mint goes into an infinite loop. Perhaps it could be changed so that if the file isn't found it just starts <sysdir>/xaaes/xaloader.prg which should normally exist.

[mzry]

Put the drive in another Atari to edit the files

[PeterS]

I do have thw ST here now but it has no IDE ports for the Milan drives.

[frank.lukas]

When mint040.prg is starting up you can press the left shift key and than the 1 key and than the return key ...

[PeterS]

Fixed thankfully.

Reflashed TOS and scsi made no difference.

Wondered what TOS could be opening that causes the crash. Only idea was NEWDESK.INF

The file was datestamped Sunday and looked ok but I decided to overwrite it with the file from the other HD which was also datestamped Sunday.

That fixed it.