[Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

[George Ramsower]

Verne

 Can you provide a copy of the results of this?

Boot with your working disk, chx to /h0/cmds and chd to /h0 first then 
insert the the boot disk that is in question.
Run this..

ident -s /d0/os9boot

Before you send the list, run that command line and make sure you didn't 
accidentally leave the original /dd floppy descriptor in your bootlist.

George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)


> George:
>    No luck. I even went back and created a virgin copy of the hard drive 
> descriptor as dd, all the descriptors match perfectly. The boot still gets 
> to OS9 BOOT, accesses the hard drive, then crashes the machine.
>
> Vern
>
>
> George Ramsower wrote:
>> Vern,
>>
>> I think you would be better off changing a copy of the  /h0 device 
>> descriptor to /dd. You already know the /h0 dd works.
>> To set/see the settings on the device descriptor that is in the config 
>> directory, use
>> dmode -ddh0.dd.scsi (or whatever the file name is you will be using.
>> The difference is the - and the /
>> Until you get it to work, you can't dmode it in memory, yes?
>>
>> Here's what MY descriptors look like and how they differ..
>> Your descriptor will be VERY different than mine, but when you compare 
>> YOUR /h0 and the /dd descriptors, the only differences should be as mine 
>> are different from each  other.
>>
>>
>> OS9[T2]:dump ddh0.dd.scsi
>>
>> Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>> ----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>> 0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF  .   M.1.!q.].$.'...
>> 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401        t.......g...4.4.
>> 0020  0864 E401 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 6B30      .dd.RBFSCSISYSk0
>> 0030  61                                       a
>>
>> OS9[T2]:dump h0.dd.scsi
>>
>> Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>> ----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>> 0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF        .M.1.!q.].$.'...
>> 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401        t.......g...4.4.
>> 0020  0868 B001 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 03C5        .h0.RBFSCSISYS.E
>> 0030  D0
>>
>> I think this is the area that needs work on your system. I also went 
>> through the same thing when I wanted to use the hard drive as the default 
>> drive. However, I got lucky and got the descriptor right the first time. 
>> My problem was finding out what files had to be on the floppy and on the 
>> hard drive.
>>
>> The driver is working, the /h0 is working, but the /dd is not. You have 
>> all the files where they need to be and this is the only problem that I 
>> can see.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)
>>
>>
>>> Robert:
>>>    These are the exact same descriptors that work fine with /dd as the 
>>> floppy. I changed the names by doing a rename with ezgen.
>>>
>>> Vern
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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