[Coco] Floppy - less boot , was Re: VI and VIRQ

[Mark Marlette]

D,

I always get the HD script to create a good bootable floppy then run  
the mb_HDB script then to create the HDB floppy which is then backed  
up to a vir drive and then linked.

The ONLY difference between a HDB-DOS boot and a hard drive boot using  
the scripts is the BOOT TRACK.

Mark

Quoting Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>:

> My doubts come from the fact that, actually, I'm booting from a virtual
> floppy in the HD.
> I thought that for the system, it would be just as booting from a real
> diskette...
> How does it work in this case?
>
> Diego
>
> PS, I'm playing Dungeons of Daggorath right now, with a real CoCo
> hooked up to the PC's video capture card, and seeing it full screen in
> a semi-transparent layover... coooooool! :-D
>
>
>
>
> Robert Gault wrote:
>> Diego Barizo wrote:
>>> Now that it comes to mention. I've been trying to create a custom   
>>> 1s35t boot disk for my HDB-DOS / SuperIDE setup, completely   
>>> unsuccessfully so far.
>>> Looking around, I found a mention of the bug in the rb1773 driver,  
>>>  and the symptoms match the ones I see, freezing after tb ......  
>>> at  boot time.
>>> Will this bug affect an attempt to boot from a HDB-DOS virtual drive?
>>> When I try that, I get all the ..... at boot, and then bCCCC%%V   
>>> Date Save Unlink GrfDrv Backup Date # t*j , and final freeze.
>>> Here is my bootlist file, which could be the cause of my problems...
>>> <snip>
>>
>> Looks to me that you have the wrong /dd descriptor in your boot   
>> file. If you want to boot from the hard drive, /dd must be a hard   
>> drive descriptor. You chose an 80 track floppy for /dd.
>>
>> RB1773 will not be used at all when booting from a hard drive so if  
>>  rb1773 is buggy, it won't matter during the boot process.
>>
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