[Coco] nitros9.org

[Robert Gault]

*j Means non-existent module. t Means the system has tried to boot. While t 
normally shows up at the beginning of the sequence, it can appear again. So 
t*j means that a module can't be found so Boot failed.

Given what you are attempting, my guess is that you either do not have 
/term in your bootfile or are missing sysgo or maybe grfdrv. Whatever it 
is, I doubt you are using the script supplied by Cloud-9 for booting from 
their systems.

Frank Pittel wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I've been using the "old" os9gen that I have. I've copied the build scripts
> and bootlists that cloud9 put on the CF card for me to the new card. I've fixed
> up the scripts and bootlists with the correct paths for the drivers and whether
> or not I boot with a "boot" floppy or from hdb the result is the same. all seems
> well at first. I get a line and a half of dots. (.) and then it starts to load modules
> for about two and a half lines. At this point all seems well and normal. At the
> end of the module list it list i2x0. At this point it should continue with a capital
> c (C) and then finish booting. In my case it displays t*j (i2xot*j) and then displays
> "boot failed". I've tried booting with both sysgo files included with nitros and the
> result is the same. I've run ident on the two sysgo files and they show up as being
> good.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:56:44PM -0500, Christopher Hawks wrote:
> 
>>Frank Pittel wrote:
>>
>>>I noticed that the page is now back up. Unfortunatly I couldn't find what I
>>>was hoping for. As I understand the latest and greatest version of os9gen 
>>>has
>>>a bug in it which presents itself when building a kernel for use on a CF 
>>>card
>>>that is partitioned for use by HDB and Nitros9
>>>
>>>I am having another problem that I'm hoping I can get some help with. I 
>>>have a
>>>CF card that I bought today with the idea of installing both HDB and 
>>>Nitros9 onto.
>>>(Interestingly enough I think I found a bug with HDB and it's dealing with 
>>>the
>>>particular brand of card I have. Any data written to the card with "save" 
>>>or "copy"
>>>is lost at reboot. However if written to the virtual file with "backup" 
>>>it's fine.
>>>The card works fine with nitros though. <Boisy if you have any interest in 
>>>this let
>>>me know and I'll send you the card when I get a replacement>) What I need 
>>>is a "bootlist"
>>>and script that will allow me to gen a bootable floppy. Amoung the modules 
>>>I need
>>>installed is the hardware clock on my superide card, Superdriver and 
>>>drivewire. I have
>>>the modules I need but I just can't seem to build a os9boot file that will 
>>>boot. :-(
>>>It would help if someone could email me what you have working for you for 
>>>the 6309.
>>
>>Frank:
>>
>>	The os9gen bug shows up first when to you run "link.bas" after 
>>	backing up the bootdisk to an HDB-DOS disk. It will report the bootfile 
>>size and location, but, will say the bootfile size is zero bytes! The bug 
>>causes _all_ bootfiles to be the fragmented type, and "link.bas" can't 
>>handle this.
>>
>>	If "link.bas" gives a real file size, you don't have the bug. The 
>>change has been committed to CVS.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Christopher R. Hawks
>>HAWKSoft
>>---------------------------------------------------------
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>>in the mad rush to upgrade systems to do things that aren't needed by
>>people who don't understand what they are really supposed to do with them.
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