[Coco] NitrOS9 Boot Help

[Tormod Volden]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Vincent Tran wrote:
> Greetings all -- After trying to Google help on booting NitrOS9 on my Coco3
> and coming up with nothing that has worked for me, I am hoping someone can
> point me in the right direction.  I've been trying to boot NitrOS9 for the
> longest time and can't seem to get it going.
>
> My setup:
> * Coco 3 with serial to USB cable to my PC
> * HBD-DOS v1.4 DW3 cartridge
> * Drivewire 3 & 4.  (I've tried both)
>
> I mount the NitrOS9 disk image to drive0 in Drivewire and type "DIR" on the
> Coco and all I get is an "OK" back.  When I do a "DIR", I get "DRIVE=0
> FREE=63"  (blank floppy?).

To clear up a few things: HDB-DOS cannot read the file structure on a
OS-9 disk, so it is normal that DIR won't give you anything or just
trash. The only useful command would be "DOS" to boot into NitrOS-9.

Do you have a 6309 CPU, since the below images are all 6309?

Stay with DW4 because the old DriveWire3 server program has more bugs.

Do you see anything in the log window of DW4?

Tormod


>
> Here are the NitrOS9 files:
>
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1_50hz.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_2.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280 nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280 nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d_50hz.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino_headless.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker_headless.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM         4,718,592 nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           632,064 nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw_headless.dsk
>
> I've also tried the nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk with the CocoSDC and
> all I get when EXEC is a scrambled screen.