[Coco] New Improved Nitros9 Booting

[Robert Gault]

Brett Gordon wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Although I'm far from an expert in nos9 matters (I know enough to boot
> it....) I don't think your use of 'cobbler' will mean anything.  If I
> understand, 'cobbler' just modifies the LSN0 of a RBF filesystem to
> point to the OS9Boot file.  Which is fine.  CoCoBoot doesn't really
> need the entry in LSN0 anymore.  The "wizard" will try to find
> "OS9Boot" as a regular file in root, and resort to the LSN0 if it
> doesn't exist (AKA "unlinked" it from the directory...in unix
> terminology).
>
> Maybe an old-timer os9'er could chime in here.
>
> Brett
>

Cobbler does more than set a pointer to OS9Boot in LSN0. Cobbler takes the 
modules as they exist in memory and creates a new OS9Boot file. This means you 
can change descriptors in memory with programs like dmode, tmode, wmode, and 
xmode and after using cobbler the changes will be "permanent".