[Coco] NitrOS9 question
David Ladd
davidwladd at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 21:19:11 EDT 2017
Dave,
Here is the directory from the root:
{Term|02}/DD:dir -e
Directory of . 2017/09/28 23:04
Owner Last modified Attributes Sector Bytecount Name
----- ---------------- ---------- ------ --------- ----
0 2017/10/06 15:49 ------wr 13 485F OS9Boot
0 2017/10/06 15:49 d-ewrewr 5D B20 CMDS
0 2017/10/06 15:49 d-ewrewr 66 1C0 SYS
0 2017/10/06 15:49 d-ewrewr 6F 100 DEFS
0 2017/09/28 21:12 ----r-wr 78 F00 ccbkrn
0 2017/09/28 21:12 --e-rewr 88 1FF sysgo
0 2017/09/28 21:01 ----r-wr 62D F9 startup
0 2017/10/06 15:49 d-ewrewr 62F 60 NITROS9
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On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> Ok, so how big is the bootfile?
>
> Dave
>
> > On Oct 6, 2017, at 4:15 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Since I can't test this on a CoCo3FPGA right now I did finally get my
> > Deluxe RS232 Pak working. I modified the make files for the NitrOS-9
> > project and made myself a CoCoSDC headless that uses the sc6551 driver
> and
> > term modules. Here is my short ident of my OS9Boot file. I tested it
> and
> > it does work and with the standard Shell+ as well.
> >
> >
> > {Term|02}/DD:ident os9boot -s
> > 19 $C0 $FA063B . KrnP2
> > 13 $C1 $FB10BD . IOMan
> > 1 $C0 $9D910E . Init
> > 37 $D1 $245E32 . RBF
> > 2 $E1 $84C07C . RBSuper
> > 22 $21 $230904 . llcocosdc
> > 82 $F1 $DB0F90 . SD0
> > 82 $F1 $081F95 . SD1
> > 82 $F1 $F8621C . DD
> > 1 $E1 $A4EB50 . rb1773
> > 82 $F1 $045CD6 . D0
> > 82 $F1 $803FAD . D1
> > 82 $F1 $8C9A43 . D2
> > 18 $D1 $55C62E . SCF
> > 10 $E1 $67C110 . sc6551
> > 83 $F1 $64212E . Term
> > 5 $D1 $6F9717 . PipeMan
> > 2 $E1 $895C5F . Piper
> > 80 $F1 $D512FB . Pipe
> > 9 $C1 $9A36A3 . Clock
> > 1 $21 $5833D2 . Clock2
> >
> >
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> |
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> |
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> |
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> |
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> |
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> >
> >
> >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to do some experiments with this on a real CoCo 3, too.
> I'm
> >> using the CoCo3FPGA right now. It's much easier for me to test things
> on
> >> this platform because I have the ability to boot with an alternate
> bootfile
> >> just by holding down the ALT key while booting. I can make changes to
> the
> >> OS9Boot.1 file while still retaining the original OS9Boot file. Also,
> >> because of Brett's bootloader, I don't have to do anything special to
> >> generate the bootfile. I just merge all of the modules needed and the
> >> bootloader will load it no matter if it's fragmented or where it
> resides on
> >> the disk structure.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 10/6/2017 7:50 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We ran into the same issue when creating the headless Drivewire disks
> some
> >>> years ago. If the boot file became too small, things went badly.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately Boisy solved this in our case so I can't give you
> specifics.
> >>> Not sure if he still monitors this list, fairly sure he intended to
> patch
> >>> the nitros9 source to correct the bug. Perhaps the fix got lost or was
> not
> >>> comprehensive. In any case, I can confirm a third case where small
> boot
> >>> file became an issue in itself.
> >>>
> >>> -Aaron
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 6, 2017 8:35 AM, "Neal Crook" <foofoobedoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In my mc09 l2 development I found a bug where a too - small bootfile
> would
> >>> hang. Padding it fixed the problem. I will look out the details over
> the
> >>> weekend and let you know, so we can see if our experiences tally. It
> would
> >>> be good to know that it was a generic problem and not specific to my
> >>> target
> >>> hardware. I spent quite a lot of time in emulation trying to track it
> down
> >>> without success
> >>>
> >>> Neal
> >>>
> >>> On 6 Oct 2017 12:40, "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Haha! That doesn't work either. But as soon as I re-assemble Term
> with
> >>> 265 extra bytes in it, it boots just fine. So it really does appear
> to be
> >>> an issue with size and not order.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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