[Coco] Trouble with nitros9

[Mark Marlette]

At 08:50 PM 7/3/2005, you wrote:

Frank,

The specific information you need is on your invoice. HDB-DOS's 256 virtual 
drives and a NitrOS-9 partition of ~127MB if IIRC. There is left over space 
on the CF for another NitrOS-9 partition. I like to keep the cluster size 
to one. Some older utilities like B&B assumed a cluster of one and POOF 
goes the integrity of the drive.

With out a floppy boot, as per the instructions in /dd/startup. This is 
going to be a big task, not impossible. Get a bootable disk, add the 
descriptors and drivers in(see below). If you make make your descriptors, 
make sure that you shut off the auto query bit in the descriptors on the 
partitioned drive. The descriptors by default query the drives, it doesn't 
assume a partition is present.

This is why it is so important to get a floppy boot BEFORE you have problems.

If you can get the descriptors set up and get the backup from the LS-120 to 
restore the CF. You will then restore the scripts that were used to create 
the system. Also in this backup you will find the descriptors so that you 
don't even need to create them. Use the bootlists and you will see what and 
where they are located.

Hopefully this helps.

Mark



>A while ago I got a superide interface along with a CF card from Cloud 9.
>At the time I bought it Mark was nice enough to load hdb dos and nitros9 on
>the cf card along with a script to allow me to choose with OS I wanted to
>boot into.
>
>Unfortunatly a few weeks ago I managed to muck up the nitros9 installation to
>the point were it wouldn't boot anymore. Since I figured I'd need a floppy
>drive to do anything about it I put the machine and card away and waited for
>the drive I bought on ebay to arrive. That happened friday and saturday I 
>decided
>that I would see what I could do to reinstall or fix the installation on 
>the card so
>that it would boot. All the data I was interested in keeping had already been
>stored on a ls-120 disk so there's no need to save anything on the card.
>
>The way it was originally installed the 256meg cf card was partitioned 
>with half
>being allocated for hdb-dos and 256 virtual disks and the second half was 
>formated
>for nitros9. Loading nitros9 was done by means of a specially configured 
>"disk 255".
>
>Although I had a gut feeling that I should leave the virtual hdb-dos 255 
>alone I cleared
>it with a dskinit. My problem now is creating a "boot floppy" to backup 
>into disk 255
>so that I can boot nitros9. I tried following the instructions included 
>with the documentaion
>but had no luck. Has anyone been able to do what I'm trying to accomplish? 
>The instructions
>on how to do this seems to be geared for people with a lot more knowledge 
>about all of
>this then I have. I seem to be missing a handfull of steps. :-(
>
>Frank
>
>
>
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