[Coco] Trouble booting nitros9

[Frank Pittel]

Mark,

I spent the last ten years working as a Unix systems administrator.
Of course I have a backup of the CF card. One thing I wish did
was to plug the card into my linux box and use dd to backup the
card. Of course I thought of it just after the card became corrupt!! :-)
In that case I could simply put the image back onto the card. It
would have only taken a couple of minutes.

I didn't use drivewire for the backup. Like you point out, it would
work great. My backup is on a ls120 disk. Unfortunatly I can't access
it without superdrive. Can I load the modules by hand? If so which
modules would I need to access the CF card and the ls120 drive.

I still like the idea of having an emergancy disk that I could boot
that would give me the tools I needed to fix a non-functionaly "disk"

Frank

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:47:29PM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> At 5/1/2006 06:54 PM, you wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Did you have your CF backed up? DriveWire does this wonderfully.
> 
> The scripts to create were on the CF.
> 
> You need to run scripts to create your boots or you will be lost on 
> any NitrOS-9 upgrade.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >I am looking for a script or better yet instructions on how to
> >use os9gen to create a kernel for nitros and put it in the boot
> >sector of a floppy. The reason for my needing to do this is an
> >embarassing story of what not to do with a coco! :-(
> >
> >While at the fest on saturday I managed to pick up a few things
> >from cloud-9. Amoung them a 6309 cpu and the nitros9 floppies for
> >the 6309. Since Mark kindly setup the CF card I had with both HDB
> >and Nitros9 for use with the 6809 that I was using I had never
> >actually needed to know how. With a brand new 256meg cf card in hand
> >I attempted to duplicate the configuration I had but for use with
> >the 6309. To make a long story short while trying to setup the card
> >with superdrive I managed to corrupt the superdrive disk I had and the
> >backup I made. I also managed to render the nitros9 floopies that I
> >had unbootable and to make things more fun mucked up the cf card that
> >Mark had setup so it wouldn't boot anymore. I thought I had a emergency
> >boot floppy for nitros but all it does is try to boot nitros on the
> >cf card that won't boot.
> >
> >I think a large part of my problem is the result of a flacky floppy
> >drive. The reason I say that is the plans I had for sunday were dependent
> >on good weather. With it raining I packed up the offending hardware,
> >drives, etc and brought it to the fest hoping to get some help with
> >my problems. I met up with Boisy and he helped getting me a floppy
> >with superdrive on it that would boot. When I got home the first thing
> >I did was backup that floppy and proceded to try and fix the image that
> >I had on the cf card. After the first try of fixing things I tried
> >to boot off of the floppy again to try again. This time the boot hung
> >the same way it had the night before. When I went to boot from the floppy
> >Boisy had setup for me so I could make another working copy I found that
> >it wouldn't boot either!! :-(
> >
> >After spending some time swearing I started to think about my current
> >situation and how I could get out of it. It occured to me that I had
> >nitros floppies that were bootable and made backups of those right away!
> >I then started to realize that although the kernel was corrupt I still
> >had the modules I needed to make a working system.
> >
> >Here's my dilema. To date I am missing the most important tool that I'm
> >going to need to pull this off. That tool is knowledge. My intention is
> >to make an emergancy floppy that contains basic capabilities and tools.
> >These include a kernel that is capable of accessing the IDE drives that
> >I have as well as using drivewire. Included would be a reasonable text
> >editor. (ved)
> >
> >My problem is that there seem to be a number of system modules that need
> >to be loaded. Does anyone have a list of modules I would need to include
> >or possibly a script to do this? I would also need instructions on how to
> >more the created kernel to the boot sector of a floppy.
> >
> >Frank
> >
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