[Coco] Trying to build new images

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 11 January 2017 10:51:25 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 January 2017 08:16:01 Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > OK, next set of questions.
> >
> > Is rel a module or just a program?
> >
> > Why, you ask?
> > I saved the file used to build the boot track and ran ident
> > against it.  rel is listed as not a module and krn gets a bad
> > header message.
> >
> > Looking at the source for rel it appears to have everything in
> > it to be a module, but I'm no expert (yet!).
> >
> > Next, I tried to assemble rel.asm on my system.  It wouldn't
> > assemble.  Are the sources not in a format recognized by the
> > NitrOS9 asm command?
> >
> > Would the bad header in krn cause it to not execute?
> >
> > Anybody want to hazard a guess why these programs appear to be
> > broken?  Or, are the results from ident bogus?
> >
> > Oh yeah, I tried running ident against rel and krn in other disk
> > images with the same results.
> >
> > bill
>
> Ident is broken when run against the track 34 contents because that
> track is contaminated with a 6 byte rsdos header.  And a batch of
> trailing bytes.
>
> To see whats there, use my vfy with the -k option. The -k option turns
> it into showing the 6 byte preamble that that rsdos needs to identify
> it as an executable. vfy should then show the 3 modules that are in
> that track, with good crc's, and the trailing bytes, usually filled
> with hex 39's up to the irq vectors that bring it up to a full 4608 
bytes to fill the track AND c/out/put/g those vectors at the correct 
locations                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> in ram once rel has done its thing. If you're not familiar with vfy,
> get it from my web page. Put the vfy file in the archive in your cmds
> directory and run it with no arguments. It will spit out its own help
> screen. It has many options, and works on any file you want to change
> "insitu".
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>