[Coco] [Color Computer] Nitros9 Boot file

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Nov 21 00:10:43 EST 2006


On Monday 20 November 2006 23:02, jlhickle wrote:
>Is there a maximum allowed size for a level 2 OS9Boot file?
>
>Better yet, can anyone direct me to docs pertaining to the Nitros9
>boot process?  I'm spend hours moving stuff around to get a working
>bootlist,  and have to repeat the process everytime I need to add a
>module.
>
>I now consider it a victory if the screen shows "NitrOS9 Boot Failed"
>-- at least it's not a screen full of sparklies.
>
I've not found it Jim and some of my bootfiles have been nearly 40k.

What I've found is more of a limit is the 'system' ram, lots of drivers 
that ask for buffers soon depleted it, IIRC the error was 207.

>Thanks,
>jim hickle

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