[Coco] Nitros9 boot disk

[Tim Fadden]

You also need sdc drivers on the boot image. Once it loads the kernel, 
it won't find the SDC card.

On 4/7/2018 10:26 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> Just floppy drivers  I thought that the SDC emulated the floppy controller so I didn't think that it used different drivers
>
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>
> Rietveld,
>
> As far as your boot disk goes what is the module list for the OS9Boot file?
> Is it configured for Floppy drivers or is it configured for CoCoSDC
> drivers?  Or do you have both sets of drivers?
>
> The reason I ask these questions are as follows:
> CoCoSDC when booting off of a floppy disk that is setup as a real floppy
> disk only will boot fine, but if you try to boot a floppy disk image that
> has both real floppy disk drivers and CoCoSDC drivers when the CoCoSDC
> drivers kick in the CoCoSDC is put into HDD mode.  Thus the real floppy
> disk drivers become unusable with the CoCoSDC as the floppy emulation has
> been turned off.  So this is something to be aware of.
>
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> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 11:48 AM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Quick question for the Nitros9 guys
>>
>> I Boot up Nitros9 using a 51/4 system disk configured to the hardware
>> This works perfectly. I copied the system disk to the SDC as NITROS9. DSK.
>> Then connected the SDC and disto board to the coco BUS with a 'Y' cable.
>> When I launch the disk image using 'DOS' it will only boot halfway then fail
>>
>> Is i‎t because I am using a 'y' cable and the SDC pak? The same setup(with
>> the Y cable) will still boot using the 5 1/4 disk and drive?
>>
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