+Larry Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I seem to remember that these are two different types of error, but can't find the distinction. Can someone explain this? I have an 810 that won't boot, and just does the "810 'SNARK' sound" and puts up "Load Error." Most of the search results that I get here at AtariAge are about tape "loading errors." Even with quotes, the search engine doesn't make a distinction. (I think it should.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 (edited) I think one (boot) is an overall inability to boot and load is a file system based error, ie it can see the disk in the drive but can't load from it. (I think that's the difference) Well for me that is the most logical explanation... Edited April 15, 2022 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 There's only "BOOT ERROR" with the stock OS. I don't know where "Load error" comes from - language processors will usually just spit out an error code and "Load error" is too generic to be much use (I guess Error 20 from Basic could be classified as such since it happens when trying to load an invalid file as a Basic program) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Rybags said: There's only "BOOT ERROR" with the stock OS. I don't know where "Load error" comes from - language processors will usually just spit out an error code and "Load error" is too generic to be much use (I guess Error 20 from Basic could be classified as such since it happens when trying to load an invalid file as a Basic program) There is no software loaded (including Basic), so it would have to come from the OS or the drive's rom. But I'm not sure which OS I was using -- probably Omniview. Omniview seems to allow more old stuff to work than the Omnimon OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Were you loading something from inside the monitor? The drive itself sends error codes as status to the computer, but the OS booter only gives the generic boot error message which can mean any of dozens of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 No, just trying to boot a disk. Tried a bunch of disks, so it's a drive issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Omniview XE has LOAD ERROR in the ROM instead of BOOT ERROR (tried in emulation with a blank image) Whatever reason, who knows? Modded OSes like that were generally used by people with higher technical knowledge so it's not like they'd be asking what a boot is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 My first thought is this is the result of a custom/replaced OS... Checking some of my XL/XE OS's... OmniMon XL - BOOT ERROR OmniView XE - LOAD ERROR XL BOSS V1 - LOAD ERROR XL BOSS V2 - BOOT ERROR OSN XL - BOOT ERROR SuperMon '86 - BOOT ERROR Funny XL BOSS switched back to "BOOT ERROR" in V2... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 11 hours ago, Nezgar said: Funny XL BOSS switched back to "BOOT ERROR" in V2... Just came back to their senses, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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