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

[George Ramsower]

I think this needs to be reorganized and cleaned up. I'll look at it 
later.... gotta go!

Does anyone remember off hand about the BLOB?


> Here it is:
>
>  17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2
>    12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan
>    67 $C0 $0B398A . Init
>     9 $C1 $D28AFD . Clock
>    28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF
>    82 $F1 $6B9092 . hd
>    82 $F1 $BAFCA3 . dd
>     2 $E1 $96184F . TCC512
>     9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk
>    82 $F1 $9B5FBA . D0
>    82 $F1 $080376 . D1
>    82 $F1 $6FB52E . fd
>    13 $D1 $F946CA . SCF
>    12 $E1 $3CB148 . MODPAK
>    83 $F1 $F622ED . T3
>    12 $E1 $C1EA10 . ACIAPAK
>    82 $F1 $9E655D . T2
>     9 $E1 $915957 . SIO
>    83 $F1 $ECEB09 . T1
>    16 $E1 $F737C2 . CC3IO
>    14 $C1 $6E4441 . GrfInt
>    83 $F1 $EC1C40 . Term
>    83 $F1 $75DEBB . W
>    83 $F1 $7CD180 . W1
>    83 $F1 $8EE4C6 . W2
>    83 $F1 $E42902 . W3
>    83 $F1 $119408 . W4
>    83 $F1 $C109F3 . W5
>    83 $F1 $A3C36E . W6
>    83 $F1 $AC6B4B . W7
>     4 $D1 $AD6718 . PipeMan
>     2 $E1 $5B2B56 . Piper
>    80 $F1 $CC06AF . Pipe
>
>
>
> George Ramsower wrote:
>> Verne
>>
>> Can you provide a copy of the results of this?
>>
>> Boot with your working disk, chx to /h0/cmds and chd to /h0 first then 
>> insert the the boot disk that is in question.
>> Run this..
>>
>> ident -s /d0/os9boot
>>
>> Before you send the list, run that command line and make sure you didn't 
>> accidentally leave the original /dd floppy descriptor in your bootlist.
>>
>> George
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)
>>
>>
>>> George:
>>>    No luck. I even went back and created a virgin copy of the hard drive 
>>> descriptor as dd, all the descriptors match perfectly. The boot still 
>>> gets to OS9 BOOT, accesses the hard drive, then crashes the machine.
>>>
>>> Vern
>>>
>>>
>>> George Ramsower wrote:
>>>
>>>> Vern,
>>>>
>>>> I think you would be better off changing a copy of the  /h0 device 
>>>> descriptor to /dd. You already know the /h0 dd works.
>>>> To set/see the settings on the device descriptor that is in the config 
>>>> directory, use
>>>> dmode -ddh0.dd.scsi (or whatever the file name is you will be using.
>>>> The difference is the - and the /
>>>> Until you get it to work, you can't dmode it in memory, yes?
>>>>
>>>> Here's what MY descriptors look like and how they differ..
>>>> Your descriptor will be VERY different than mine, but when you compare 
>>>> YOUR /h0 and the /dd descriptors, the only differences should be as 
>>>> mine are different from each  other.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OS9[T2]:dump ddh0.dd.scsi
>>>>
>>>> Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>>>> ----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>>>> 0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF  .   M.1.!q.].$.'...
>>>> 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401        t.......g...4.4.
>>>> 0020  0864 E401 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 6B30      .dd.RBFSCSISYSk0
>>>> 0030  61                                       a
>>>>
>>>> OS9[T2]:dump h0.dd.scsi
>>>>
>>>> Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>>>> ----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>>>> 0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF        .M.1.!q.].$.'...
>>>> 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401        t.......g...4.4.
>>>> 0020  0868 B001 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 03C5        .h0.RBFSCSISYS.E
>>>> 0030  D0
>>>>
>>>> I think this is the area that needs work on your system. I also went 
>>>> through the same thing when I wanted to use the hard drive as the 
>>>> default drive. However, I got lucky and got the descriptor right the 
>>>> first time. My problem was finding out what files had to be on the 
>>>> floppy and on the hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> The driver is working, the /h0 is working, but the /dd is not. You have 
>>>> all the files where they need to be and this is the only problem that I 
>>>> can see.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
>>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:26 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Robert:
>>>>>    These are the exact same descriptors that work fine with /dd as the 
>>>>> floppy. I changed the names by doing a rename with ezgen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Vern
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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