Error 43: Host did not boot

[Sixtovigo]

I know, but I have my Mackie OS v3, what I need is the operating system that goes under the Mackie OS vX, as you see was created by this company http://www.smxrtos.com/customer.htm.

[Crash]

In all of my years with this product, I have not seen this.

[Sixtovigo]

So I need a copy of the operating system. The Mackie OS vX I have it.

[synthjoe]

I think the only place you can obtain it will be the company itself - if at all. On the Mackie you have a single, compiled file that contains all code, including I/O functions, application, etc. I don't think there is a separate OS that runs the vX software as an application, but this is rather an application specific collection of software routines combined in a single executable.

The closest you can get to the OS is by displaying the desktop, but I doubt there is a 'real' OS under that (e.g. printer handling, other device drivers, etc.).

If you talk about SMX, that's a collection of source code libraries and you can get it here: http://www.smxrtos.com/
Then you can complie it to the platform you like, but I would not expect too much OS functionality from it, as it is more like a kernel (being an embedded OS), lacking most functions of a fully blown OS. Get a description here.

[Crash]

So I need a copy of the operating system. The Mackie OS vX I have it.

I have never seen anyone need this is what I was trying to say... LIke SynthJoe said, it is all there in the Mackie OS. If you are trying to get around an error 43, this is not the way to get there. Since you have gone down the BIOS path with no fix, can you tell if the harddrive is spinning. It could be something like that, or bad RAM as well.

[synthjoe]

...but now the problem is software

How do you know that? What are the symptoms, messages on the VGA screen, etc. making you say that?

Let me give you a quick rundown on the d8b boot sequence:
1. Intel CPU resets, jumps into BIOS code (stored in some kind of ROM) and initializes vital I/O hardware
2. if a HDD is found, the partition table and master boot record (MBR) will be checked (some other boot devices, like ROM, floppy and others are also checked, but not quite relevant here)
3. if a valid and active (bootable) partition is found on HDD, then the MBR will be loaded into a specific segment of the memory and execution passed to that code (standard BIOS procedure - here the normal BIOS operation ends)
4. the boot code usually loads a specific file from the file system (in the case of d8b it is the PME.SYS file in the root directory, which is the Mackie OS loader)
5. usually execution is passed to this newly loaded code, which loads more user code and does with the machine whatever it wants...

Software is involved from the very first point, so which software are you referring to? BIOS? MBR code? SYS loader? Mackie's specific code?

Your 43 problem (which indicates a serial communications issue, as pointed out earlier) might be due to any of the following: BIOS failure (settings and/or firmware), incorrect boot device (floppy in the drive? - or bad BIOS setting), not bootable HDD (invalid/inactive partition, etc.), corrupt MBR code, corrupt PME.SYS file, corrupt mackieos.exe file, failed serial port (bad BIOS setting?) and more, or any combination of these. So, without knowing messages on the VGA display first, it would be very hard to guess even remotely right. All that is fixable by software (including boot files - but not BIOS) will be fixed if you reinstall the OS as described on Mackie's pages.

Hope this helps.

[Sixtovigo]

In the VGA does not put anything, because there is no a Boot.ini or another type of file *.ini to perform the function of the operating system boot.
Found the CPU, the Ram, ports, etc., everything is Ok because it works with Windows and found that everything worked.
The HDD is good that you found with Windows and MS-DOS (fdisk, chkdisk,...) the just correctly load MS-DOS diskets and MACKIE OS
The BIOS correctly, http://www.mackie.com/support/documents ... ttings.pdf
You can try to install the disckets of Mackie OS on a HDD and put it on the 166 MHz CPU, Mackie OS fails to boot, so it appears the error43: Host did not boot. Because you need a basic system of boot, this makes it http://www.smxrtos.com/.

[Sixtovigo]

Sorry, in the VGA does not put anything after boot BIOS

[Sixtovigo]

If the operating system boot in OS Mackie diskets, why you have to do a backup before format HDD? http://www.Mackie.com/support/documents ... _Drive.PDF

[synthjoe]

Sorry, in the VGA does not put anything after boot BIOS

This indicates that the PME.SYS file is not started. Maybe it is not loaded, either. My bet would be on a corrupt MBR record. Can you create a DOS boot floppy with FDISK. EXE on it? If so, then do that and insert it into the d8b CPU and boot up (set BIOS to boot from floppy, if needed), wait until DOS boots from the floppy. Once booted, do a 'DIR C:\*.SYS /A /S'. If you get PME.SYS among the results, then do an FDISK /MBR (this should restore MBR code. If you remove the floppy and reboot, SW loading should work. If it doesn't, boot again from floppy and do FDISK, check if the C: partition is made active (selection 4, display partition information, 'A' should be in front of the partition parameters). If the partition doesn't have an A, you should make it active (I think it is selection 3 on the main menu), otherwise it might be that your PME.SYS is corrupt, so copy it over to the HDD from a known good source (or reinstall the d8b OS as described earlier).

If the operating system boot in OS Mackie diskets, why you have to do a backup before format HDD?

It boots from floppy, not the HDD. A blank (or newly partitioned) HDD will not have boot code on it. Fdisk and Format (as descibed in the document you've quoted) will make your HDD bootable, doing pretty much the same as the procedure above. However, it deletes all data from the HDD, so you'd better back up any important data you might have on it.