[Coco] creating NitrOS9 boot disk

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Bob Devries wrote:
>Gene Hesket said:
>> Is the address and length of the bootfile properly recorded in LSN0?
>> During the bootup, the drivers aren't smart enough to understand the
>> directory
>> structure, and cannot look the bootfile up in the root directory.
>
>Actually, Gene, I believe that the latest NitrOS9 *is* capable of reading
>fragmented OS9Boot files, and hence the contents of DD.BT has the address of
>the File Descriptor in it and the DD.BSZ has 0, to show a possibly
>fragmented file.

That would be great, I guess I need to read up on the notes.  What version & 
where in the tree would I find that?

>Can someone confirm that this actually works?
>
>I'll change DD.BT and DD.BSZ to do it the old way, and see if it boots then.

It will be interesting to find out.

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Hope this helps some, sorry for not being able to do a brain dump.

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