Booting Fuzix on a SC126

Adrian Neumaier

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Jun 24, 2024, 11:48:23 AM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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Hi all,

I am trying to boot Fuzix 0.4 on my SC126 and all I get is:

RomWBW HBIOS v3.0, 2020-03-27

SC126 Z8S180-N @ 18.432MHz IO=0xC0
0 MEM W/S, 2 I/O W/S, INT MODE 2
512KB ROM, 512KB RAM

ASCI0: IO=0xC0 ASCI W/BRG MODE=115200,8,N,1
ASCI1: IO=0xC1 ASCI W/BRG MODE=115200,8,N,1
DSRTC: MODE=STD IO=0x0C Mon 2024-06-24 17:40:20 CHARGE=OFF
MD: UNITS=2 ROMDISK=384KB RAMDISK=384KB
IDE: IO=0x10 MODE=RC
IDE0: 8-BIT LBA BLOCKS=0x0003C8A0 SIZE=121MB
IDE1: NO MEDIA
PPIDE: IO=0x20 PPI NOT PRESENT
SD: MODE=SC OPR=0x0C CNTR=0xCA TRDR=0xCB DEVICES=1
SD0: NO MEDIA

Unit Device Type Capacity/Mode
---------- ---------- ---------------- --------------------
Char 0 ASCI0: RS-232 115200,8,N,1
Char 1 ASCI1: RS-232 115200,8,N,1
Disk 0 MD1: RAM Disk 384KB,LBA
Disk 1 MD0: ROM Disk 384KB,LBA
Disk 2 IDE0: Hard Disk 121MB,LBA
Disk 3 IDE1: Hard Disk --
Disk 4 SD0: SD Card --

SC126 Boot Loader

ROM: (M)onitor (C)P/M (Z)-System (F)orth (B)ASIC (T)-BASIC (P)LAY (U)SER ROM
Disk: (0)MD1 (1)MD0 (2)IDE0 (3)IDE1 (4)SD0

Boot Selection? 2 Slice(0-9)[0]? 0

Booting Disk Unit 2, Slice 0...

Reading disk information...
Loc=F200 End=F400 Ent=F200 Label=Fuzix 126 Loader

Loading...
FUZIX version 0.4
Copyright (c) 1988-2002 by H.F.Bower, D.Braun, S.Nitschke, H.Peraza
Copyright (c) 1997-2001 by Arcady Schekochikhin, Adriano C. R. da Cunha
Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Will Sowerbutts <will@....>
Copyright (c) 2014-2023 Alan Cox <alan@....>
Devboot
DS1302 detected at 0x0C.
512kB total RAM, 448kB available to processes (15 processes max)
Enabling interrupts ... ok.
0000 : TS128MCF300 - OK
0001 : - absent

At this point I only see activity on the LEDs bouncing back and forth but no further boot. No other extra Card besides the standard RC2014 CF Storage Card v1.3 is connected to the system, nor anything on the I2C or SPI Bus.

Any advice on how to proceed would be helpful :)

Br,

Adrian

Michael Dadswell

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Jun 24, 2024, 12:31:20 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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Hi Adrian,

I can't tell you what is wrong, but below is the output on my SC126 booting Fuzix. You have an older version of RomWBW and your boot stops at the point where you should be offered the bootdev. If I were you I'd try updating RomWBW and if that doesn't work reimaging the CF card. Or you might try putting the Fuzix image on an SD card instead. I'm using an SC145 CF storage card.

RomWBW HBIOS v3.4.0, 2024-04-20

Small Computer SC126 [SCZ180_sc126] Z8S180-N @ 18.424MHz IO=0xC0
0 MEM W/S, 2 I/O W/S, INT MODE 2, Z180 MMU
512KB ROM, 512KB RAM
ROM VERIFY: 00 00 00 00 PASS

AY: MODE=RCZ180 IO=0x68 NOT PRESENT

ASCI0: IO=0xC0 ASCI W/BRG MODE=115200,8,N,1
ASCI1: IO=0xC1 ASCI W/BRG MODE=115200,8,N,1

DSRTC: MODE=STD IO=0x0C Mon 2024-06-24 16:43:16 CHARGE=OFF
MD: UNITS=2 ROMDISK=384KB RAMDISK=352KB
FD: MODE=RCWDC IO=0x50 NOT PRESENT
IDE: IO=0x10 MODE=RC
IDE0: ATA 8-BIT LBA BLOCKS=0x0003D200 SIZE=122MB

IDE1: NO MEDIA
PPIDE: IO=0x20 PPI NOT PRESENT
SD: MODE=SC OPR=0x0C CNTR=0xCA TRDR=0xCB DEVICES=1
SD0: NO MEDIA

CH0: IO=0x3E NOT PRESENT
CH1: IO=0x3C NOT PRESENT
FP: IO=0x00 NOT PRESENT

Unit Device Type Capacity/Mode
---------- ---------- ---------------- --------------------
Char 0 ASCI0: RS-232 115200,8,N,1
Char 1 ASCI1: RS-232 115200,8,N,1

Disk 0 MD0: RAM Disk 352KB,LBA
Disk 1 MD1: ROM Disk 384KB,LBA
Disk 2 IDE0: Hard Disk 122MB,LBA

Disk 3 IDE1: Hard Disk --
Disk 4 SD0: SD Card --

Small Computer SC126 [SCZ180_sc126] Boot Loader

Boot [H=Help]: 2.0

Booting Disk Unit 2, Slice 0, Sector 0x00000000...

Volume "Fuzix 126 Loader" [0xF200-0xF400, entry @ 0xF200]...

Devboot
DS1302 detected at 0x0C.
512kB total RAM, 448kB available to processes (15 processes max)
Enabling interrupts ... ok.

0000 : TOSHIBA THNCF128MMA - OK
0001 : - absent
hda: hda1 hda2 (swap)
bootdev: hda1
Mounting root fs (root_dev=1, ro): OK
Starting /init
init version 0.9.1
Checking root file system.

^ ^
n n Fuzix 0.4
>@<
Welcome to Fuzix
m m

login:

I hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,

Mike

Wayne Warthen

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Jun 24, 2024, 12:39:58 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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On Monday, June 24, 2024 at 9:31:20 AM UTC-7 Michael Dadswell wrote:

I can't tell you what is wrong, but below is the output on my SC126 booting Fuzix. You have an older version of RomWBW and your boot stops at the point where you should be offered the bootdev. If I were you I'd try updating RomWBW and if that doesn't work reimaging the CF card. Or you might try putting the Fuzix image on an SD card instead. I'm using an SC145 CF storage card.

Might be worth a try, but I don't think it will help. At the point that the Fuzix boot stops, you have already fully transitioned to Fuzix code. RomWBW really just acts as a loader for Fuzix.

It is not obvious to me what is going wrong.

Thanks, Wayne

Alan Cox

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Jun 24, 2024, 1:05:58 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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The 0.4 build wrongly decides you have a graphics card. It's a bug
that's been fixed a while so once 0.5 comes out all should work fine
as should a build from git.

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Michael Dadswell

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Jun 24, 2024, 1:06:11 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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Adrian,

Of course, Wayne is right. So I think I'd try an SD card rather than the CF.

Cheers,

Mike

Phil Pin

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Jun 24, 2024, 4:48:25 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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I also have Fuzix 0.4 booting on a SC126. I am booting Fuzix from a CF card using ROMWBW v3.4 but you can also boot Fuzix using the monitor. I am using a pre-built SC111 Fuzix image from here: https://www.fuzix.org/downloads/0.4/sc111/

Small Computer Monitor - SC126
*cpm
SC111 FUZIX LOADER 0.1

808080............................................................................................................................
Executing FUZIX...

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Will Sowerbutts ...
Copyright (c) 2014-2023 Alan Cox ...
Devboot

512kB total RAM, 448kB available to processes (15 processes max)
Enabling interrupts ... ok.

IDE drive 0: hda: hda1 hda2 (swap)
IDE drive 1:

Mounting root fs (root_dev=1, ro): OK
Starting /init
init version 0.9.1
Checking root file system.

Current date is Mon 2024-06-24
Enter new date:
Current time is 13:20:11
Enter new time:

^ ^
n n Fuzix 0.4
>@<
Welcome to Fuzix
m m

login: root
Welcome to FUZIX.
# ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
0 1 1 0 13:20 ? 00:00:00 /init
0 9 1 0 13:20 tty1 00:00:00 -sh
0 10 9 0 13:30 tty1 00:00:00 ps

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Adrian Neumaier

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Jun 24, 2024, 6:30:11 PM (11 days ago) Jun 24

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Hi Alan,

Thanks for the info. I tried to compile the GIT Code, but ran into an issue here.

Bintools have been built successfully

/opt/fcc/bin is in the PATH

When i try to build the Compiler Kit I get this error:

mkdir -p /opt/fcc//lib/nova
mkdir -p /opt/fcc//lib/nova/include/
cp lordernova /opt/fcc//bin/lordernova
cp: cannot stat 'lordernova': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:362: bootinst] Error 1

Any Ideas?

Br,

Adrian

Alan Cox

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Jun 25, 2024, 10:31:03 AM (10 days ago) Jun 25

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Oops should be fixed now. Silly error on my part

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