[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Create NitrOS9 L1 boot disk for Dragon with FD-502?

[drag0n1969]

Boisy Pitre sent me the image of a working boot disk.
I finally have NitrOS9 booting up on my Dragon!
Thanks, Boisy!
Chen 

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "drag0n1969" <chen.herzog at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> >>Yes, that is correct.  When creating the boot, you need to use 
the  
> >>dragon-compatible os9gen which will put the kernel track at 
track 0,  
> >>sector 3.
> 
> It now appears to me that the _Dragon_ NitrOS9 disk I have, may 
contain 
> the CoCo os9gen/cobbler/format commands rather than the Dragon 
commands.
> 
> Boisy, can you fix the Dragon download link at 
> http://www.nitros9.org/Downloads.html? (current link is broken)so 
that 
> I can verify this with the latest NitrOS9 version.
> 
> >>You're attempting to do this under MESS with a version of NitrOS-
9?   
> >>Perhaps a detailed listing of the steps and commands you use 
would  
> >>help in debugging this.
> 
> Here what I'm doing (I've tried many options, but this should be a 
> short quick check):
> Using MESS, emulating Coco2:
> Drive 0: NitrOS9L1 for CoCo
> Drive 1: NitrOS9L1 for Dragon
> Drive 2: Create empty VDK dragon disk
> 
> Boot NitrOS9 on Coco2.
> Chx /d1/cmds *move to dragon commands
> chd /d1/cmds
> format /d2 *(should format a dragon disk)
> cobbler /d2 
> 
> use VCOPY to copy the VDK image to a real 3.5" floppy.
> 
> IIRC, as a quick test, this should have produced a dragon bootable 
disk 
> (with coco controller) - but with the wrong keyboard mapping.
> 
> In practice, the Dragon doesn't seem to recognize this as being a 
> bootable disk at all (probably due to wrong verson of command in 
my 
> NitrOS9 disks).
> 
> Chen
>







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