-*- Mode:Text -*- ;;; First, find a working k band or evaluate the following form: (make-system 'falcon :noconfirm) : : : ;;; Once the Falcon system has been made on your machine, ;;; evaluate the form: (update-k-system) : : : ;;; Next we cal LAM:K-LOCAL-SETUP with the number of the slot ;;; which has been allocated to the K Memory board. We obtain ;;; this number by visiting the machine room and counting slots ;;; from the right of our machine's backplane, until we come to ;;; the double-boarded Falcon slot pair. One of the two boards ;;; is the K Processor board; the other is the K Memory board. ;;; The K Memory board has two distinguishing characteristics: ;;; 1) It has a number of SIMS (memory chips) protruding from ;;; its right side, and 2) the slot to its right is empty, to ;;; make room for the protruding SIMS. ;;; If evaluation of this form returns anything other than the ;;; fixnum 2, seek help. (lam:k-local-setup 13) 2 ;;; This step initializes the Falcon and leaves it running ;;; in a debugger loop. (k-kbug:mega-boot) : : : n = 57 physical = 15 virtual = 32768 Mapping 8000 to F Mapping 8001 to 10 Mapping 8002 to 11 Mapping 8003 to 12 : : : Mapping 8037 to 46 Mapping 8038 to 47 Physical memory (megabyte) bit-map = 1111 Falcon stopped, PC=#x22C0 Cold load finished! you're not going to see the countdown .. Begining Hot files. : : : LI:WARM-BOOT-COMPLETE+#x6 (UNCONDITIONAL-BRANCH LI:WARM-BOOT-COMPLETE+#x6 (DA4A) (ALU PASS-STATUS NOP R0 R0) UNBOXED BOXED-MD UNBOXED-VMA DT-NONE) ;;; Once having reached this debugger loop, the booting process ;;; is complete. Asynchronous commands such as HELP provide ;;; nominal control over the Falcon's operation: [Help] You are typing at the K debugger MARK-II.  to exit. SPACE to single-step. C-P to proceed K, remaning in debugger. C-F to view register-frames. C-M-F to view register-frames with datatypes and values. C-L to clear-screen. C-Z to stop machine. M-S to display the K call stack M-F to flush the K call stack M-R to run a read-eval-print loop on the K M-L to run mini-lisp-listener on the K M-E to display an error message