[Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems

[Christopher Hawks]

gene heskett said the following on 12/02/2010 07:50 PM:
> On Thursday, December 02, 2010 08:31:13 pm Don Johnson did opine:
>
>> Sorry, I don't see anything being printed on the other than
>>
>> 		OS9 BOOT
>>
>> 		 FAILED
>>
> 1. Please don't top post, position your reply under the question asked so
> that it reads like a normal conversation, from top to bottom.  That is many
> times easier for following the conversation.  Then, because we're all out
> of sync now, I'll trim the rest of this.
>
> 2. If it found and loaded and ran the boottrack from track 34, it should
> have at least printed the "KREL boot" string.  Since it did not, and to
> refresh my thinking, the next question is:  Were you booting from a floppy
> in drive0?
>
> If yes, you should be able to watch the mb script as it runs and see if it
> reported any errors, so would you please re-run that and double check that
> there were no module not found errors as it runs?  Your renaming may have
> made an error 216 out of something.
>
> Another item I have found to be handy is to move the 'del bttrack' or
> whatever its called in the mb script to a point above where the 'merge'
> command builds it, so that when the script is done, the boottrack will be
> left and inspectable by some of the tools available to os9/nitros9 if you
> do have a working all floppy boot.  I am thinking of my 'vfy' command in
> particular as it reports the true internal name of the module it is
> scanning in a multimodule file, which both the boottrack and os9boot files
> are.
>

Gene:

	He is using OS9 _not_ Nitros. That is all the info you get on the screen.

Don: (not the actor??)

	Can you build a bootable disk without the hard drive modules? If you can, 
simply adding the hard drive modules should not affect the boot process. This 
is going to be slow and painful with Microware OS9. Thats' why most of us moved 
to NitrOS9 many years ago.


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Christopher R. Hawks
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