[Coco] Trouble booting NitrOS9 under MESS 148

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

XMXMXM is pretty much your are using the 6309 on 6809

I don't know about the rgb-dos but for superIDE you must have boot_ide as
boot descriptor.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net>wrote:

> I'm currently using a Mac so my emulator choice is pretty much limited to
> MESS for coco3.
>
> I can download the nos96809l2v030209_80d.dsk from the nitros9.com website
> and successfully boot using ./mess coco3 -flop1 nos96809l2v030209_80d.dsk
> -video opengl -window
>
> I would like to set up a vhd file to boot nitros9.  I've downloaded RGBDOS
> from Robert Gaults' site and renamed disk11.MESS to disk11.rom and MESS
> starts with RGBDOS.
>
> I've created a coco3.vhd zero-byte file using the touch command.  I've run
> the CREATE.BAS file from the tools.dsk and it does properly create the vhd
> file with tools on 253 and the boot disk on 254.
>
> The problem I am having is that the boot always fails from the menu or
> executing DOS 254.
>
> If I use the provided os9boot.dsk I get OS9 Boot Failed.  If I use the
> provided nitros9boot.dsk I get a screen filled with XMXMXMXMXMXM.  This
> happens even if I change the extensions from dsk to os9
>
> If I use the 80d disk from nitros9 as the boot disk that I know boots on
> its own will not boot after it is moved to 254.
> BTW, LINK.BAS returns a wrong format when I use this disk.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions how to get past this?
>
> FYI… I can boot directly from the 2 40 track dsk files or the 80 track dsk
> file but not the dw3 or becker versions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip Zeigler
>
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