[Coco] Trouble booting NitrOS9 under MESS 148

[Philip Zeigler]

Well, if I switch to coco3h (6309) then I do get NitrOS9 Boot - Failed instead of XMXMXMXM.

Still not booting though :(

Philip


On Apr 19, 2013, at 1:26 PM, "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> XMXMXM is pretty much your are using the 6309 on 6809
> 
> I don't know about the rgb-dos but for superIDE you must have boot_ide as
> boot descriptor.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net>wrote:
> 
>> I'm currently using a Mac so my emulator choice is pretty much limited to
>> MESS for coco3.
>> 
>> I can download the nos96809l2v030209_80d.dsk from the nitros9.com website
>> and successfully boot using ./mess coco3 -flop1 nos96809l2v030209_80d.dsk
>> -video opengl -window
>> 
>> I would like to set up a vhd file to boot nitros9.  I've downloaded RGBDOS
>> from Robert Gaults' site and renamed disk11.MESS to disk11.rom and MESS
>> starts with RGBDOS.
>> 
>> I've created a coco3.vhd zero-byte file using the touch command.  I've run
>> the CREATE.BAS file from the tools.dsk and it does properly create the vhd
>> file with tools on 253 and the boot disk on 254.
>> 
>> The problem I am having is that the boot always fails from the menu or
>> executing DOS 254.
>> 
>> If I use the provided os9boot.dsk I get OS9 Boot Failed.  If I use the
>> provided nitros9boot.dsk I get a screen filled with XMXMXMXMXMXM.  This
>> happens even if I change the extensions from dsk to os9
>> 
>> If I use the 80d disk from nitros9 as the boot disk that I know boots on
>> its own will not boot after it is moved to 254.
>> BTW, LINK.BAS returns a wrong format when I use this disk.
>> 
>> Anyone have any suggestions how to get past this?
>> 
>> FYI… I can boot directly from the 2 40 track dsk files or the 80 track dsk
>> file but not the dw3 or becker versions.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Philip Zeigler
>> 
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