[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Christopher Hawks]

Tim Fadden said the following on 02/12/2010 03:45 PM:
> On 2/12/2010 2:30 PM, Tim Fadden wrote:
>> On 2/12/2010 2:21 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> This seems to be a different issue than Steve and Robert had.  If I
>>> understand it correctly, their systems boot fine off the non-dw
>>> hardware, but once booted they are unable to access DW drives.  The dw
>>> clock does work, not sure about the printer device.
>>>
>>> In your case, it's almost the opposite.. you cannot boot from the
>>> non-dw device.   It's good to know that booting from DW does work
>>> fine, but we need to sort these issues out.   Unfortunately I do not
>>> have floppy or hard disk controllers here, so it's very difficult to
>>> do any troubleshooting on issues that do not effect booting from DW.
>>> We will get things sorted, but it may take some time and cooperation
>>> from others if they are willing to help.
>>>
>>> One thing that way be important is that using the latest drivers with
>>> older versions of NitrOS9 is not supported.  If you want to use the
>>> latest drivers, you must also use the latest operating system.
>> Yes, this is what I did, everything was from
>>
>> nos96809l2v030209coco2_dw3.dsk
> 
> Sorry, typo.  should have read    nos96809l2v030209coco3_dw3.dsk
>>
>> other than for scsisys  but it never gets loaded anyway.
>> Any specific files/info that I can provide is yours, just let me know.

Tim:

	Where is your Track 34 coming from. The one on nos96809l2v030209coco3_dw3.dsk 
will alwas get the Bootfile from drivewire. You need to use a Track 34 image 
that will get Bootfile from a 1773 floppy.


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