[Coco] Booting Nitros9.

[Jeff Teunissen]

Cobbler, os9gen, etc. actually do work on CoCoSDC hard drive images;
as far as the hardware is concerned, an SDC virtual hard drive is just
a really big floppy disk. And if you have an SDC, you could just boot
off that, right?

That said, it is certainly possible to put a NitrOS9 boot loader onto
a ROM, and therefore possible to put one onto a bank of the CoCoSDC,
into a bank of Jim Brain's Flash Pak, etc.

Boisy Pitre had a CoCo in his pickup truck, that I think he removed
the original Color BASIC ROMs from and replaced it with a full OS9
kernel, but that's not really the same thing you want.

Brett Gordon also has CoCoBoot, a semi-universal boot loader that
understands CoCo hardware and is capable of loading and booting OS9
off a hard disk. CoCoBoot may or may not be ROM-able.

The odds are that no one is doing exactly the thing you want, but if
you want to do it, there are probably people who will help you do it.

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 8:38 PM Doug Fraser <zathrasldf at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a question.  Is it possible to flash a Nitros9 boot kernel to a bank on the CoCoSDC like the Burke n Burke did with the XT-rom?
>
> As using cobbler,  os9gen, kwikboot etc doesn't work on hard drive partitions, it seems to me that if a flash image similar to the XT-Rom placed in one of the flash banks could solve this issue. Has anyone done this, and what steps did they take?
>
> Doug Fraser
>
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