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

[Peter S. <ps...@sc...>]

I've not noticed this issue with my Milan. Maybe it's a different motherboard version or due to the bootblock version ?

⁣Peter​

On 18 Jan 2025, 20:42, at 20:42, Jo Even Skarstein via Freemint-discuss <fre...@li...> wrote:
>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
>
>
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