After getting my Lisa 2/10 up and running, I was able to boot from the Widget into MacWorks XL. But it has started to hang during the boot process. The HD activity light would flash rapidly then go steady. Hitting the interrupt button would get it going again, including a momentary pfs:file & pfs:report flash screen before the desktop appears.
Now it won’t even boot at all, just going into an infinite state. No error codes. Can still boot it with the Floppy Emu. Does this sound like a corrupted hard drive? I did find a nVIRA virus on the Emu. Or would replacing one or more Widget boards more likely fix it?
I would like to reformat the drive and install LOS, and the BLU sounds like the answer. Too bad its not included on the Emu Lisa stuff. I don’t look forward to
“type a bunch of hex numbers in for the BLU loader” or running terminal software that supports x-modem transfers I have 128k to SE classics, Mac laptops running early to the latest OSX, and a Rasburry Pi 400.
Can the Apple Service mode reformat it?
Now it won’t even boot at all, just going into an infinite state. No error codes. Can still boot it with the Floppy Emu. Does this sound like a corrupted hard drive? I did find a nVIRA virus on the Emu. Or would replacing one or more Widget boards more likely fix it?
I would like to reformat the drive and install LOS, and the BLU sounds like the answer. Too bad its not included on the Emu Lisa stuff. I don’t look forward to
“type a bunch of hex numbers in for the BLU loader” or running terminal software that supports x-modem transfers I have 128k to SE classics, Mac laptops running early to the latest OSX, and a Rasburry Pi 400.
Can the Apple Service mode reformat it?