!System missing under RO5.27 in RPCemu 0.9.2?

So, i’ve tried installing RO 5.27 in RPCemu using this guide.
And i did everything listed here but on Linux which is kind of ironic and i keep getting the same error everytime
" Error: File ‘System:Modules.Toolbox.Proginfo’ not found (Error number &D6) "

P.S it also boots me into CLI

Error: File ‘System:Modules.Toolbox.Proginfo’ not found (Error number &D6)

That module is in the system ROM, so it shouldn’t be missing.

Try typing *Unplug at the command line. With any luck it will report “No modules are unplugged”, but if you had previously been running RISC OS 3.7 in RPCEmu you may see some 15-20 modules (including ProgInfo) unplugged. These will need to be re-enabled.

To re-enable an unplugged module, use *RMReinit (so for ProgInfo you would issue *RMReinit ProgInfo – you need to repeat this for every unplugged module). Once you’ve done that, restart RPCEmu and you may get a bit further.

I’m slightly surprised that a “clean” boot sequence (ie. not loading any programs) would be asking for that module. It is a “toolbox” module, normally loaded by programs written using Acorn’s Toolbox libraries, which install on the iconbar (ie. applications/programs).

However, the Toolbox modules have historically been a bit of a special case. They are included in ROM because there may be bundled Acorn programs that need them (eg. !Configure) so they are included in ROM “just in case” (ie. in case no hard disc is available for booting). However, they are potentially out of date (obviously less so in ROOL beta-ROM era) if new versions have been released since the last major ROM. Eg. imagine a RISC OS 4 owner who has a perfectly working RiscPC, but needs the bug fixes to the constantly-evolving toolbox support modules.

As a result, the first thing that many versions of !Boot do is to unplug all the ROM toolbox modules. There’s often a file called “UnplugTbox” that just that. It (!Boot or UnplugTbox) may (unchecked/unconfirmed) also then auto-load replacement versions from !System, where the updated editions would reside. This would cause the error mentioned.

Normally, !Boot (or rather !System) will include disc-based versions of the Toolbox modules. So, make sure you have grabbed the latest Beta, nightly HardDisc4 disc image which I would expect to include soft-loadable versions (unchecked). Failing that, there’s a pretty universal !System update on !Store (free) that should update most of your System modules to recent versions, for just this kind of situation.

Normally, !Boot (or rather !System) will include disc-based versions of the Toolbox modules. So, make sure you have grabbed the latest Beta, nightly HardDisc4 disc image which I would expect to include soft-loadable versions (unchecked).

Starting from a blank RPCEmu install and adding the 5.27 ROM only should take you to the CLI with no errors.
Copy in the HardDisc4.util file and ensure is filetyped as utility with the command settype harddisc4 ffc

Run harddisc4 should now expand the self extractor, or type desktop open the (empty except HardDisc4 file) disc drive viewer and double click the clearly utility filetyped HardDisc4 file. Sit back and watch the hourglass for a little while.

Press f12 and issue the following commands
Configure FileSystem hostfs
Configure Boot
Press enter twice to return to the desktop then press ctrl-shift-f12 to shutdown.

Shutdown/close the RPCEmu application and relaunch it.

If you plan on doing anything that adds to the !Boot (like ROL derived Toolbox elements) or like to see a log of what went right or wrong during the boot sequence then download and install Harineumi from Ricks little set of useful items.

One of these days someone will integrate that, or something like it, into the official ROM so everybody gets fault logging at boot time.

Thank you. it works flawless. (Sorry for the late reply. The forums like to log people out.)