[Coco] Trouble booting NitrOS9 under MESS 148

[Philip Zeigler]

Robert,

Yes, I can boot from floppy. It is only after using the create.bas program to create the .vhd that the resulting boot disk that was moved to 254 will fail to boot.

It seems that the boot disk will only boot from drive 0.

Philip

Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

>Philip Zeigler wrote:
>><snip>
>> 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.
>>
> ><snip>
>
>Booting OS-9 from a directory on the hard drive will only work if OS-9
>is 
>already installed on the hard drive in the first half of the drive.
>
>I think the instructions included with my RGBDOS package explain how
>one would 
>install OS-9/NitrOS-9 on a .vhd disk. You will certainly need to boot 
>OS-9/NitrOS-9 from a floppy, create a new boot disk that includes the
>.vhd 
>driver package, boot from that new floppy, and then format the .vhd
>drive for OS-9.
>
>You should not use more that $5A000 sectors for OS-9 on the .vhd image
>or you 
>will overlap the Disk Basic partition.
>
>This creation can be difficult if you are new to OS-9. A formatted .vhd
>image 
>can be found on the VCC site which has an older version of NitrOS-9
>installed. 
>I'm not sure which directory Joseph put the boot disk on, 255 or 254.
>
>Have you been able to boot from the floppy? If not there is a problem
>with the 
>nightly build.
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>
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