[Coco] OS9 Level 1 ver 2

[Chester Patterson]

I've tried both OS9Gen and Cobbler several times and no dice. I _MUST_ add
those little bytes by hand, then all is well. 18 years ago I don't recall
having those problems but I switched to a CC3/OS9L2 bare weeks after getting
L1, so my memory of experience with it back then is practically
non-existant. Just curious, is all. I enjoy messing around with boottracks.
This Nitro OS9Gen -t option is WONDERFUL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault [mailto:robert.gault at worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:10 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS9 Level 1 ver 2


Chester A Patterson wrote:
> Thanks.
> I thought it had to be a table, what with 01 this, 01 that, etc.
> What gets my goat is neither Cobbler nor OS9Gen can or do put those
> bytes in there, they are just loose bytes in between the OS9 CRC and the
> OS9p2 header, that I had to put in there manually. I guess my question
> is, was OS9 Level 1 ver 2 released as flawed as that?
>

Why do you think OS-9 Level1 ver2 is flawed? Both Cobbler and Os9gen
will either read the boot track from memory (including the vector table)
or a separate file and place the boot track on disk. That's all OS-9 was
supposed to do.

Under normal OS-9 usage, the boot track would not be changed from the
Tandy default content. It is up to the user to see that the boot track
is correctly formed when hacking the code.