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the system is stopped

Started by mohamadp, 2008.04.27, 11:58:24

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RobertM

Pete has it on the button! Or buttons as it may be.

Stick the formatted floppy in FIRST, then hold CTRL-ALT and hit NUM-LOCK twice. Your machine will "boop" (like a beep, but sounds more like "boop" - really) and seek the floppy. At this point, you can let it continue with the register dump to floppy or hit C-A-D to restart.

One thing I had heard (but never confirmed) is that you may need multiple floppies depending on the amount of memory in the machine. I have no clue... some people have said it dumps the register values... other seem to think it dumps the register and memory values...

Maybe someone could enlighten us (me) as to which?

Robert


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rudi

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Robert,

The dump facility will try to write out a complete memory image of the the system. So on recent computers that requires quite a lot of floppies ;-).  Therefore it is possible to set up a dedicated disk partition, to which dumps are written.

Fortunately, the register information can be found within the first megabyte (most likely as memory image of the VGA RAM in text mode). So if you are only interested in this, you simply abort the dump after the first floppy. There is a tool by Steven Levine (DMPTRPSC.ZIP), that will extract the information from the file on that floppy converting it into a more readable format.


RobertM

rudi,

Thanks much!




mohamadp,

Hope this helps somewhat. Let us know what you find! The utility that rudi refers to can be found here:

http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/files/gfd/systool/index.html

(as well as on a few other file archives out there).

Robert


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