[LMH]Cold Booting

[Mike McDonald]

>From: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no>
>To: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@sakura.lunar-tokyo.net>
>Subject: [LMH]Cold Booting
>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:56:06 +0200
>
>Daniel Seagraves writes:
>        [ snip ]
> > There are 7 PROMs, numbered 2236480-03 through 2236486-03.
> > 
> > I started at 0 and ended at 6, dumping 8 bits from each to make a 56-bit
> > word.  This is a partial dump of the result:
> > 
> > 00000000:  ;GDOS...ting ....
> > 00000010:  ;.Wai.Slot .. ...
> > 00000020:  ;...= Slot.BOOT..
> > 00000030:  ;.OR: ......ERR.c
> > 00000040:  ;e : ..d devi.ct
> > 00000050:  ;loa...Sele. : ..
> > 00000060:  ;..d name.em loa.
> > 00000070:  ;..Syst. ......na
> > 00000080:  ;me :.oload ...Mi
> > 00000090:  ;cr........sts :
> > 000000a0:  ;.ded te.=Exten.e
> > 000000b0:  ;st, E. R=Ret. lo
> > 000000c0:  ;ad,.M=Menu.load,
> > 000000d0:  ; .fault ...D=De.
> > 
> > There's ASCII in there (GDOS? ^_^) but it's still somewhat scrambled...
>
>        You've probably noticed already, but it seems that the data is
>in 7-byte-chunks, with the last byte (either 02 or 06) serving as some
>sort of flag/content indicator. Further, the data seems to be
>right-padded with 00s within each chunk.

  And the 7 byte chucks go high to low.

  D=Default load,
  M=Menu load,
  R=Retest,
  .=Extended test

  Microload name
  System load name
  Select load device

  ERROR
  BOOT
  = Slot
  Slot Waiting
  GDOS

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com