[Coco] Osk and OS9gen

[Paul Fitch]

Well, OS9/68000 b oot files are routinely over 64k in size, so OS9Gen has a
switch to deal with <e>xtended or fragmented bootfiles. I don't know if I
have ded or not.  I'll have to look.

On my Nitros emulated system, I built a bootdisk that contained h0.dd in it,
so that as soon as the primary boot was accomplished, the system started
using files and settings off of the emulated harddrive.

I tried this with an Osk boot disk, and I can see it accessing the HD
initially, but it appears to lockup.  I say appears, but it could just be
waiting for something it doesn't have.  I'm working on tracking down whos in
charge at what point and who is doing what to see what the problem is.  I've
copied all the files the HD, so it SHOULD work, but it isn't.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:04 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Osk and OS9gen
> 
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Paul Fitch wrote:
> >I'm trying to OS9gen a  boot file for the AT306's harddrive, 
> so it will 
> >boot from the HD, and later my 4-gig CF.  The OS9gen works fine and 
> >prepares a boot file, up until the last step, then it gives me the 
> >error "Can't close /h0" and quites.  The boot file is called 
> Tempboot 
> >and ident shows that all the modules in it are valid.  But its not 
> >linked as a bootfile.  I tried OS9gen on both /h0 and 
> /h0fmt.  Any thoughts?
> 
> If you have the defines for the HD's LSN0, and something like 
> dEd for the AT306, that might be fixable by hand.  If 
> anything like os9 for the coco, the filename itself is not 
> used at boot time, only its location and size are recorded in 
> LSN0 as DD.BT and DD.SIZ.  That of course assumes it is not a 
> fragmented file.
> 
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