[Coco] Remind me: OS-9 boot track . . . ?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 21 January 2015 09:40:54 Allen Huffman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> As I am almost ready to start backing up my OS-9 floppy disks, my brane
> cells are kicking in with some memories.
> 
> I may very well have a bunch of boot disks (before I had a hard drive)
> that I want to copy, but I think I should be okay just doing an "arc"
> (dsave for impatient people) to copy them to a folder on my new drive.
> The only thing this wouldn't get is whatever was on the boot track.
> 
> There wasn't really anything special about that track beyond the boot
> module that got os9boot from whatever source (SCSI, floppy, etc.),
> right?
> 
> 		-- A

There is a B09 utility on my web page, in the Genes-os9-stf link, called 
KRNL_2_DIR.b09, whose sole function is to make a directory entry and FD 
sector for the boottrack which effectively turns it into a normal file 
that could then be included in your backups.

I used it for forensic purposes & never got around to writing a write it 
back to disk tool.  That would be more complex, but not impossible.  You 
would have to work in the /dn@ mode of opening the raw disk of course.
Works on SS or DS disks.

Be my guest.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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