[Coco] New Improved Nitros9 Booting

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Robert,

Cobbler also writes REL/BOOT/KRN to track 34.  With the new boot method,  cobbler will probably fail.

I envision a version of NitrOS-9 that is supported exclusively by CoCoBoot.  This version would have no cobbler and no os9gen.  What version that will be, I haven't decided.

Best Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre

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On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

> 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".
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