[Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, December 02, 2010 07:53:19 pm Don Johnson did opine:

> Robert
> 
> Okay, well let me restate my problem and try to fill in some of your
> questions.
> 
> For a first step I copied the drivers available from the Glenside disk
> to the module directory on a copy of the OS-9 Boot disk.  I re-named
> the cc3hdisk_16_50.dr driver to cc3hdisk.dr because after many failed
> attempts the config utility program in the next step seemed to be
> looking for that name. I did not re-name the h0_16.dd.
> 
> I then called the config command from the Boot disk and followed the
> instructions as directed on screen, as described in the OS-9 manual,
> Chapter 7, on how to create a new system diskette.  During that process
> I selected to include the module for printer (P), PIPE, /d0_35S,
> /d1_35S, and /h0_16.  I selected the TERM_WIN with all the available
> windows.  I put in a newly formatted floppy and let the work begin in
> created a new system disk.
> 
> When I tried to boot into OS-9 with that system disk (floppy),  which I
> believe to have been built with a hard drive device, it starts off
> normal enough with the 'OS-9 BOOT' message on the screen, and then
> shortly after that the word 'FAILED' appears below and the floppy
> stops.
> 
Ok, a further question here, at the top left of the screen, it should start 
to print something, probably 'KREL boot' if the unmarked boottrack was 
found and loaded, which may be followed by some of the other names included 
in the os9boot file if it is successfully loaded and read.  There may be a * 
followed by a single ascii character, which is $80 is added to it, 
represents the error number.

Please copy to the this list, every character it prints at the top of the 
screen, preserving case and all.

> That is as far as I have gotten.
> 
> There is no error message other than 'FAILED' and I don't get a shell
> prompt,  so I guess you could say the system locked up, but a reset
> will take me back to the DECB prompt.

This is normal if the boot was not successful.

> I don't know what the boot
> process is looking at.  I don't know if there is a /DD descriptor in
> the OS9Boot, and I don't know what the Init would be either.  Any help
> in how to figure these things out would be useful information as well. 
> I'm sure it is probably in the OS-9 manual somewhere but I haven't
> managed to read that far yet, and neither /DD or Init appear in the
> glossary or index.
> 
> As I stated in my original message I must be missing something.  I've
> read through the documentation sent with the interface boards and have
> not seen, or understood there to be, any other steps required.  "All
> you need to do to make a new boot disk is to add the hard disk driver
> and hard disk descriptor to your boot file".  I believe I have done
> that with the creation of a new System diskette with the hard drive
> driver and descriptor included.  I may be wrong.
> 
> While I was successful in running the detect_ide.b09 program to see the
> ide hard drive attached to the interface, I was not able to format the
> drive because I could never start OS-9 with a hard drive device name. 
> It is kind of hard to say "format /h0" when it doesn't know what /h0
> is, and I do get an error when I try it but you probably already
> guessed that.
> 
> -Don
> 
> On 2010-12-02, at 4:47 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > Don,
> > You can't expect to get useful answers if you don't tell us what is
> > going wrong. Merely saying the Glenside IDE does not work for me
> > tells us next to nothing.
> > 
> > When you try your boot disk, is it a floppy or a Basic disk on the
> > hard drive? Whichever, what do you see on the screen after entering
> > DOS? Does the boot process go at all but look for files on the wrong
> > drive? Are there any error messages or does the whole system just
> > lock up? How did you create the boot disk and what is the content of
> > the OS9Boot file supposed to be? Is the Boot module one for a floppy
> > or one for the IDE unit? What do the /H0 and /DD descriptors point
> > to? What does Init point to?
> > 
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