[Coco] OS9Boot bugs

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 22:59:08 EDT 2006


Chester, can you give a list of what is in your boot file?
Do you have grfdrv in the CMDS directory, and with the correct attributes 
set?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chester Patterson" <vchester at setec-cr.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:00 PM
Subject: [Coco] OS9Boot bugs


> Hi all,
>
> OS9 ver2 standard. Coco3 512, MPI. All worked great 12-14 years ago. But
> now... While making boot disk for my ST225 (B&B interface) I have run into
> some curious behaviour that I haven't seen before. First a standard 
> bootup,
> load bbfhdisk and /H0. Was able to format and dircopy to /H0. And chd/chx 
> as
> well. However when I went to use any command that access' /h0/cmds, error
> 215. OK, I thought, boot order bug. So ezgen a proper boot disk with
> bbfhdisk and H0 right after RBF and before cc3disk. Boot up. Am able to
> chd/chx and access /h0 just fine but none of the /w descriptors work! 
> (error
> 215) All I have is the 32 column term. So I turn everything off, 
> disconnect
> the power to the ST225, but not the cables, boot up, and presto, all the
> windows work fine. How do I get this to work? Thanks.
>
> /Chester
> Costa Rica
>
>
>
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