Bring out yer AROS bootlogs!

[falemagn]

Want to help AROS development but don't have programming knowledges? Don't worry, here's a way for you to contribute to the AROS effort.

If you have two computers at home, one of which must by force be a PC IBM AT compatible, please try out this  floppy image and follow the instructions below

1) Connect the two machines trough a null-modem cable, using the COM1 port on the PC side.
2) Start a terminal program on one machine and set it to 9600 bps, 8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit. Start logging.
3) Boot up the AROS image on the PC and let the boot log flow trough your serial cable.
4) When finished, please email the log to aros-bootlogs@lists.sourceforge.net

The longer you keep AROS running, the more informations will be logged, the more you'll help AROS development.

Thank you for your support!
Fabio Alemagna
AROS Developer

[falemagn]

It's a floppy image, meaning that it's just a file representation of the whole floppy disk. You have to put it back track by track on the floppy. If you are using linux, you should know how to do it (otherwise I don't think you would be able to use linux at all whilst if you use an MS operating system, you need utilities such as RawWrite or similar.

Fabio Alemagna

[falemagn]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but can you not write a log file to disk on the machine that is running Aros?

No, at the moment you can't.

Fabio Alemagna

[falemagn]

Have you decompressed the file first?

Is the floppy in  a good state?

Fabio Alemagna