[Coco] Booting Nitros9.

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 10 May 2020 09:39:00 Doug Fraser wrote:

> No, but when i had a Burke n Burke adapter, I had the XT-ROM that boot
> straight into NitrOS9 without the need for a floppy boot, which is
> part of my question. Creating a boot rom similar to the XT-ROM for use
> in the CoCoSDC.
I remember that, used track 128 of the os9 filesystem for the boot track. 
Worked when it wanted to but also had a problem reading the fat, getting 
a sector full of zero's, then scribling all over the drive on a 
subsequent write.

Msgs to Chris were never answered, a new controller card behaved exactly 
the same, and I eventually got tired of fixing the filesystem again and 
again, and bought a 4n1 from Tony, fixing that problem but not the 
clock, however I was able to fix half the clocks problem eventually. The 
half I couldn't fix was the scrambling of its setting by noise during a 
reboot. But a decade later that drive got sticky, and a TC^3 came to 
live in slot 3, driveing 2 of my old amiga 1 Gig drives.

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> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 5:58:55 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting Nitros9.
>
> On 5/9/20 8:38 PM, Doug Fraser 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?

It should be Bill. There is not any self modifying code in Nitros9 that I 
know of.  The boot module would have to know about itself, but 
everything else s/b fine.

> I  have another question.  has anyone ever tried running NitrOS9 from
> a ROM?  OS9 was definitely ROMable does the same apply to NitrOS9?
>
> bill
>
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