[Coco] Shell and Applications in OS9Boot?

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Mon Jan 11 11:57:51 EST 2010


Joel Ewy wrote:
> I'm trying to make a bootable slideshow disk that will run in 128K.  
> I'm trying to pare the boot file down to the bare essentials.  Several 
> questions to that end:
>
> 1.  Do I need the pipe driver and descriptor (assuming pipes are not 
> used in a shell script)?
> 2.  Can I include the shell and application program in the bootlist to 
> reduce memory fragmentation?  I've tried this out, but the boot 
> process hangs. 3.  Do I need to change sysgo?  It has a hardcoded path 
> to /dd/cmds/shell -- is this causing a problem because the shell is 
> already loaded with the boot modules?  Or am I likely having a problem 
> with something else that I left out of the boot list?
>
> JCE
>

I should add that I am using edited versions of the NitrOS-9 mb and 
bootlist scripts, and sysgo and grfdrv are present and accounted for.

JCE

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