[Coco] NitrOS-9, Cobbler and Fragmented Boot Files

[Kip Koon]

Allen,
I'd like to try out this MultiBoot!  Is it still available?

Kip Koon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Allen Huffman
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 8:47 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9, Cobbler and Fragmented Boot Files


> On Dec 9, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, Nitros9 has support for fragmented Boot, but no decent editor.  Cobbler is still in a Level 1 state and hasn’t changed since release.  I use Kwikgen myself for the boot file, I only use cobbler for the boot track.

If I recall, the only thing that made a bootfile special was an entry in LSN0 pointing to it (and it needing to contain certain modules, not be fragmented, etc.).  When we sold MultiBoot, the user could just copy as many os9boot files as would fit to the floppy, and you'd run the program to identify which ones were bootfiles (I think).

Then, typing DOS presented a menu of all the boot files, and you'd select the one you wanted then hit ENTER and it would link the LSN0 to it, and then do a normal DOS boot.

It seems a utility to do this would be real easy -- basically just merging modules? Cobbler recreated what was in memory (current boot), right? It's been so long! I think I used EZGen from Burke & Burke or something for all of my bootfiles.


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