[Coco] NitrOS9 booting sequence

[Dave Philipsen]

Nice explanation!  I will review this on my next attempt.  Thanks!

Dave Philipsen


On 9/1/2015 6:43 PM, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:10:50 -0500
> Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, so as everyone has probably figured out I am trying to make some
>> modifications to the REL, Boot, and Krn modules in order to get the
>> CoCo3 FPGA booting directly from the SD card without help from DW.
>> I'm also trying to accomplish this with native tools under NitrOS9
>> instead of using the Toolshed and Lwtools packages. So, today I was
>> able to create a boottrack file and svdgen a disk.  When I try to
>> boot it the screen shows all of the modules loaded through Clock2 and
>> then at the end it prints  "i2xo*X" just before the boot fails.  I'm
>> guessing that something is still missing on the boot disk.  I have an
>> OS9Boot file, a sysgo file, and a CMDS directory with just "shell" in
>> it.  What am I missing in order to complete the boot?
>>
>> Dave Philipsen
>>
>>
>>
> Dave:
>
> 	If you haven't seen it, attached is my decription of the boot
> process printing (with msdos eols). It describes what the system prints
> on the screen as it boots. The * indicates failure and the X indicates
> Pathname Not Found error. 'X' is ASCII 88, and 88 + 128 = 216, the
> error code for 'Path Name Not Found'.
>
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
>
>



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