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

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Sun Aug 28 10:15:23 EDT 2005


Perhaps you have overlooked that more than changing the name of /D0 to 
/DD is necessary when redirecting the boot process. Use dEd to examine 
the /D0 and stock /DD descriptors and you will see that the driver name 
is included in the descriptor and likely is cc3disk.

Does your current /DD descriptor call cc3disk or hdisk? You will need a 
descriptor which includes the correct driver name if you want your hard 
drive to function via /DD. Use /H0 (if that is your hard drive 
descriptor) as the model, make a copy, use dEd to change the name from 
H0 to DD, verify, and you should have better luck.

Vern Burke wrote:
> Ok, I'm getting somewhere now (uhuh, sure :)). Init and cc3go appear to 
> be correctly patched. If I leave DD as the floppy drive, the boot will 
> finish with the paths set as /dd and /dd/cmds, just the ticket, so I 
> believe the boot floppy is set up 100% correctly.
> 
> The remaining problem is switching /dd to the hard drive. The process 
> gets to "OS9 BOOT", reads the hard drive extensively, and then crashes
> badly. cc3go is on the root of the hard drive, shell and grfdrv are in 
> cmds, all modules ident good and proper attributes.
> 
 ><snip>



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