[Coco] coco OS9 boot ROM

[Bob Devries]

OK, ok. Let me underline the SCSI part of my question.
I have a Disto 4-in-1, with a SCSI 120MB drive attached. I've already munged
my disk basic ROM to go straight to the DOS command on startup (rough and
ready, too).
I *NEVER* use RSDOS for anything. Haven't for many years now.

Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Blazejewski" <stanblaz at netspace.net.au>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Coco] coco OS9 boot ROM


G'day,
I reference to Bob's question,

I don't know where you've been but there's been a OS9 Boot rom around
ever since the B&B XT hard drive interface.  The rom replaces the hard
disk controller rom & can be set up to boot straight of the hard
drive.

I have 2 setups,  the one I had on the BBS looked at the floppy & then
finished up on the hard drive (because I was 'constantly'
updating/changing the OS9boot file).  The other 'play' machine booted
straight from the hard drive without any floppy intervention at all.

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 00:34:04 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>But why unnecessarily sacrifice the ability to run all RSDOS software?
>It is quite an easy ROM patch to have the CoCo boot OS-9 unless, say, the
>space bar is being held down, in which case it does the usual Basic
>boot-up.  (This was one of the configurable options I put into Extended
>ADOS-3, though it would be a bit silly to burn an EA3 ROM if one were
>using OS-9 essentially exclusively.)
>
>Art
>
>On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Bob Devries wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to see is an OS-9 boot ROM that replaces the existing BASIC
>> ROM. I *never* use disk basic, and find it a real pain to have to boot
off a
>> floppy to get into OS-9.
>>
>> Something along the lines of the way the MM/1 works: Check the floppy, to
>> see if there's a bootable disk, then check the hard disk (SCSI or IDE,
tho
>> the MM/1 doesn't do IDE), keep looping one of them boots.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
>>
>>
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