[Coco] problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09

[Bob Devries]

Hi Gene,

unfortunately, ED/VI is not on the standard NitrOS9 distribution disk.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09


> On Thursday 21 January 2010, Bob Devries wrote:
>>Answering my own question here.....
>>
>>I found that OS9Gen doesn't like to have blank lines in the file of 
>>modules
>> that are to be included in the OS9Boot file. Live & learn.
>>
>>I also found out that edit will not work on a file that has a relative
>> path:
>>
>>edit ../bootlists/myboot.bl
>>
>>returns error 216.
>>I'd bet that it tries to creat its SCRATCH file, but can't do that for 
>>some
>> reason.
>>
>>Regards, Bob Devries
>>
> Humm, edit?  Nuh uh.  I use 'ed' but it is not really ed, it is the vi 
> made
> from the tsedit disk using a patchset I found, and then when 3.2.8 came 
> out,
> it came with a device descriptor named vi, so I had to get uber cute with 
> ded
> and rename it in the directories to ed, and then ded vi itself to change 
> its
> name internally.  Why?  TBT, its the only decent editor the coco has 
> unless
> you want to use dynastar and learn to put up with its itty-bitty buffer 
> that
> you can only read forward in the file with. vi (now ed here) can use a 56k
> buffer, whats not to like?
>
>>--
>>Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's
>> native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
>>
>>Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Bob Devries
>>  To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>  Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:40 PM
>>  Subject: problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09
>>
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>  I've been trying to create a custom boot disk from the latest NitrOS9
>> distribution, V03.02.09.
>>
>>  I'm booting from the supplied disk image (using VCC). I created my own
>> bootlist file called myboot.bl in the /NITROS9/6309L2/BOOTLISTS 
>> directory,
>> and my own mb.myboot script file, which is identical to the file
>> standard.bl, except I rem'd out the instruction to delete bttemp (I
>> thought I was having a problem there).
>>
>>  The script works fine up to step 3, and then gives an error 215. It
>> continues to the end correctly, except that no OS9Boot file is produced,
>> and Tempboot is left on the target disk. It's in the OS9Gen phase that 
>> the
>> failure occurs.
>>
>>  When I do an ident of the tempboot file, it quits at the RBF file.
>> Somehow, the RBF file is not being read correctly. However, if I ident 
>> the
>> file RBF.mn in /DD/NITROS9/6309L2/MODULES/RBF, it comes up correct.
>>
>>  I have checked the paths to each and every module included in the
>> myboot.bl file, and I can't see anything wrong.
>>
>>  Can anyone give me any clues?
>>
>>  Regards, Bob Devries
>>
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>> one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
>>
>>  Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975
>>
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>
>
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