[Coco] Re: Re: Nitros9 3.02.02 problem

Coco Pilot cocopilot at verizon.net
Fri Jul 23 19:15:49 EDT 2004


One suggestion: delete the  the OS9Boot file, and move the sysgo file to 
another floppy,
then do the cobbler, and move the sysgo back to your system disk. 

-Ben
Charlie wrote:

>Hi again.
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>This didn't work for me.
>I made a boot disk that included the bbfhdisk.dr and h0.dd for my harddrive.
>Of course it didnt work cause it needs to be patched as you said. So, I
>copied debug,cobbler and ded to the cmds directory of the new boot disk. I
>then booted the disk and started to do what you described. I got an error on
>the cobbler /d0 step. Cobbler gave me an error about it being fragmented.
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>Looks like I'll have to wait for the next release of Nitros9, unless there
>is a way around that.
>
>Charlie
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>"Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote
>in message news:410107E5.6030604 at worldnet.att.net...
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>>Charlie wrote:
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>>>Thanks for the reply! Can you explain to me exactly how to "patch" RBF?
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>I'm
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>>>using the 6809L2 and would be booting from the Nitros9 disk as
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>downloaded
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>>>from Nitros9.org
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>>>Thanks
>>>Charlie
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>>>"Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote
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>>>message
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>news:EE8B8F14-DC52-11D8-AAA3-0003939F08E6 at boisypitre.com...
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>>>>Charlie,
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>>>>This is the result of a bug in RBF that was introduced in 3.2.2.  I
>>>>posted a fix a couple of days ago to the list...
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>>>>>debug
>>>>>L RBF
>>>>>. .+795  (that is period space period+795)
>>>>>=21
>>>>>Q
>>>>>          
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>>The sequence that Boisy gave is the method for making the patch. Debug
>>is a program which comes with the package. The command sequence is
>>debug
>>L RBF                 which links to the rbf module
>>. .+7C5               moves forward $7C5 bytes to the byte needing change
>>=21                   indicates to change the value to 21
>>Q                     leaves Debug
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>>This leaves you with a patched rbf in memory but with a bad crc. Boisy
>>forgot to mention you must now save this change to make things permanent.
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>>cobbler /d0             if that is the boot drive
>>dEd /d0/os9boot         dEd is on your disk
>>L rbf                   tell ded to link to the rbf module
>>V                       verify the module
>>Q                       leave dEd
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>>Your change is now permanent and rbf has a good crc value.
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>>There is a slightly shorter route if you use modpatch to make the byte
>>change because modpatch contains a verify command.
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