[Freemint-discuss] XaAES often crashes during boot after a reboot

[Jo E. S. <jo...@on...>]

On my CT60/SV I have noticed that XaAES very often crashes while
starting up if I do a warm reboot. I have attributed this to the
idiosyncrasies of the CT60, and "fixed" the problem by always doing a
coldboot. On the CT60, a coldboot means that all fast-RAM is zeroed.

Now, a couple of days ago I fired up my Milan which hasn't really been
used for ages, as I somehow managed to mess up my trusty old MiNT-setup
and couldn't get current snapshots to boot properly. After dealing with
some hardware issues I noticed the same trend as on the Falcon - XaAES
would often crash at various points while starting up. The Milan does
not clear fast-RAM after a coldboot, so I wrote a small program that
does this and ran it before MiNT in the autofolder. And now XaAES has
booted without any problems every time. Which suggests that either the
kernel or XaAES depends on some memory/variables being zeroed.

Jo Even