[Coco] Problems with New Boot for VCC and Nitros9

[Bob Devries]

The *W at the end of the diagnostics indicate error 215 - bad path name.

Something is bad in the bootfile... can you do an IDENT of the bootfile, and 
check if it is all good?

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manny" <manney at gmail.com>
To: "The CoCo List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:35 AM
Subject: [Coco] Problems with New Boot for VCC and Nitros9


> Hi all,
>
> First off, I'm new to Nitros9, but not OS-9.  I used to use OS-9 quite a
> bit back about 10 years ago in Jeff V's emulator plus back in the day
> between 86 and 95.  I haven't really played with OS-9 in years, but it's
> funny how quickly things come back to you.. Almost like I never put my 
> Coco
> in the shed all those years ago.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to make a Nitros9 boot disk in VCC, but it's failing: <
> http://manny.invigorated.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nitros9-fail.png>
>
> I've modified the standard.bl from the nos96309l2v030209coco3_80d.dsk from 
> <
> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/> to include a /p, /d3, /h0 (from a
> previous OS-9 installation I had from years ago for a virtual HDD) and
> Cloud-9's RTC.  When I run the installation script, it completes
> successfully.  But when I go to boot, it brings up the above error.
>
> Can anyone shed light on this?
>
> Nitros9 has some interesting changes, some which I like and other which
> have me pulling out my hair wondering why 'they' changed that.  :)
>
> Thanks.
> -A.
>
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