[Coco] rebuild NitrOS9 with superIDE

[Retro Canada]

It sounds like NOS9 is not able to open the 32 column console (the
> boot process uses it's own routines). I noticed that in your bootlist you
> have term_vdg.dt selected, but, neither of the covdg.io modules. term_vdg
> requires scf and vtio, and vtio requires covdg (or covdg_small).

Ok, I'll try redoing it including these modules. Otherwise I will copy
the screen here.

Where do I get the modules dependency list ? I tried the nitros9.org
without sucess.

Other thing, I noticed the 3.2.9 disk version doesn't boot on VCC
emulator. What could be wrong ? The 3.2.8 boots fine but none of the
latest 3.2.9 version from the nitros9 web site. Tested on MESS but
same problem.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
> Retro Canada said the following on 09/24/2012 08:00 AM:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a superIDE and a floppy drive (FD-500). But I don't have a
>> multipak. I want to rebuild the NitrOS-9 Boot because the cloud-9
>> stock distro comes without any support to 32 columns and the drivers
>> needed to run Sierra games and others. So far I split the process in
>> two: first using drivewire with the FD-500 plugged and second plugging
>> the sIDE.
>>
>> I stared generating a floppy through drivewire (copying the missing
>> CLOUD9 drivers into it) and using the bootlist as follows in this
>> email I generated a 35 track floppy using the following boot track:
>>
>> format /d0 1 '35' "NitrOS-9 Boot" r
>> merge ../MODULES/BOOTTRACK/rel_32 ../MODULES/BOOTTRACK/boot_ide
>> ../MODULES/BOOTTRACK/krn>bttemp
>> os9gen /d0 -t=bttemp<../BOOTLISTS/superdriver_ide.bl
>>
>> And after using drivewire (with HDB-DOS translation) I can backup from
>> the generated floppy into a DSK image on PC and using SIDEWalk I can
>> copy this DSK in to the CF virtual drive 255. Then , plugging the sIDE
>> back I run LINK.BAS wich finds correctly the boot track and links the
>> disk.
>>
>> But when booting from DOS 255, the NitrOS-9 Boot starts in 32-colunmn
>> mode but fails after reading all modules.
>>
>> What could I be missing ? The floppy does contains an IDE boot track
>> and the modules file has the all ide support as well as the
>> .../CLOUD9/dd_ide_256mb_CFpart.dd There is only this DD module on it.
>>
>> I managed to create a similar DW build in 32 columns (changin of
>> course to boot_dw) where I included all the ide support. So booting
>> from this drivewire distro I can use the sIDE and play all the Sierra
>> games on it but I want to to change the installed CF boot too.
>>
>> Am I missing something ? I use the 3.2.9 6809L2 and a 512K coco3.
>
>
>         It sounds like NOS9 is not able to open the 32 column console (the
> boot process uses it's own routines). I noticed that in your bootlist you
> have term_vdg.dt selected, but, neither of the covdg.io modules. term_vdg
> requires scf and vtio, and vtio requires covdg (or covdg_small).
>
>         Otherwise refer to the attached description of NOS9 boot process.
> Can you tell us what (all) is printed on the screen during boot?? This will
> point to where the error occurred during the boot process.
>
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