[Coco] NOS9 Boot_Burke

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 23 October 2006 17:44, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>Precisely my dilema, I don't know how to exchange the standard NOS9 BOOT
>with the Boot_Burke file. I've never played with the boottrack before.
>In the case of the B&B system, on the MFM HD, track 128 (and track 129
>for the ALTBoot) contains this file hidden away in there along with REL
>and what not.

I have, on rtsi I believe, a utility that might help to educate.  Called 
krnl2dir or krnltodir maybe.  It generates a directory entry that points 
at this otherwise hidden file.  Once thats done you can use my 'vfy' 
utility to split it up into the 5 pieces it actually is.  Theres the 6 
byte header that rsdos uses to identify it as an os9 disk when you type 
dos, then the 3 pieces of the original 1st stage boot, called rel, boot 
and what was once os9p1, followed by an interrupt table that got loaded 
into the top $10 bytes of ram.  All of which are important.

But, if you get the latest NOS9 distro from nitros9.org, there are suitable 
utilities and scripts in there to facilitate the mods you are 
contemplating.  There are many ways to skin that cat.

What I wrote back then was because there was no other way to do it, now 
there is.

>-----Original Message-----
>
>On Monday 23 October 2006 15:20, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>>How does one install the NOS9 Boot_Burke (ident returns BOOT) module
>>into an NOS9Boot file?
>>In the distant past (17+ years ago - jeepers! That's a long time!),
>>when I made up B&B ST225, ST251 and ST4096 systems, I just used the B&B
>>
>>"modpatch l2bpatch" command on the BOOT module in RAM then cobbled up a
>>
>>new disk. But Boot is not a regular boot file module that I can just
>>EZGen from a disk into another disk's OS9Boot file...
>
>From: Gene Heskett
>Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:16 PM
>To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>
>First, that boot module isn't in the NOS9boot file, its in the boottrack
>wherever it might be located, the entire track 34 of an old os9 boot
>floppy.

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