[Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Sun Aug 28 05:04:37 EDT 2005


    I don't remember for sure, but try DEDing CC3Go... I think it may have  
a /d0 or /dd hard-coded in there too.

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:11:09 -0600, Vern Burke <vburke at skow.net> wrote:

>
> <snip>
>
> Ok, the mystery deepens. I created a copy of my working boot floppy with  
> the hard drive driver and /h0 on it to mess around with. I did the  
> following:
>
> Stripped cc3go out of os9boot and put it in the root of the floppy.  
> Works perfectly.
>
> Used ded to change the /d0 reference in init to /dd (d0 and dd are both  
> working descriptors to the floppy). All modules in os9boot ident  
> correctly. Fails boot!
>
> Ded'd init back to /d0, fails boot again!
>
> I get the feeling I'm missing something simple here. I know both dd and  
> d0 work to the same drive, init shows the d0 to dd change, init idents  
> correctly, hmmmmmm.
>
> Vern
>



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L. Curtis Boyle



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