[Coco] NOS9 mb script

[Boisy Pitre]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

> Chester A Patterson wrote:
>> The mb script in NOS9 MODULES/SCRIPTS has a line that confuses me
>> Merge ../MODULES/BOOTTRACK/rel_80 ../MODULES/BOOTTRACK/boot_1772_6ms
>> ../MODULES/krn >-bttemp
>> Note the dash ("-") at the beginning of -bttemp
>> OS9Gen %1 -t=bttemp <../BOOTLISTS/standard.bl
>> Where'd the dash go? Is it a typo? If not, what's its purpose?
>> Reason I ask is I'm manually making different boot disks. I merged
>> several different rel boot krn combinations, naming them one thing or
>> another, and OS9Gen isn't cooperating completely when I do the
>> -t=boottrack option.
>> Also, where's the best place to locate the T1.dd and it's  
>> corresponding
>> driver? Right after SCF on boot gives me either sparklies or just
>> freezes.
>> Thanks. /Chester
>
> I've removed the - from >-btemp whenever I've used this script. In  
> short, I think it is a typo.

Actually, it is not a typo.  It uses the feature of shell+ to insure  
that the file gets overwritten if it happens to be already there.   
Just a little insurance.

> The location of T1 in os9boot should not be an issue. You normally  
> place descriptors closely after their driver probably so it  
> increases the chance they are in the same block of memory. For  
> recent NitrOS-9 distributions, the driver is scbbt not SCF which is  
> the manager.
>
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