[Coco] Problems with New Boot for VCC and Nitros9

[Manny]

Gene,
I'm not too sure what's happening.  Others seem to be able to see it.  Just
in case, I'll try the URL again:

http://manny.invigorated.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nitros9-fail.png

Thanks.
-A.

On Jan 20, 2014 10:44 PM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 20 January 2014 17:39:41 Manny did opine:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First off, I'm new to Nitros9, but not OS-9.  I used to use OS-9 quite a
> > bit back about 10 years ago in Jeff V's emulator plus back in the day
> > between 86 and 95.  I haven't really played with OS-9 in years, but it's
> > funny how quickly things come back to you.. Almost like I never put my
> > Coco in the shed all those years ago.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm trying to make a Nitros9 boot disk in VCC, but it's failing:
> > <
> > http://manny.invigorated.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nitros9-fail.pn
> > g>
> >
> Is a 404 from here.
>
> > I've modified the standard.bl from the nos96309l2v030209coco3_80d.dsk
> > from < http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/> to include a /p, /d3,
> > /h0 (from a previous OS-9 installation I had from years ago for a
> > virtual HDD) and Cloud-9's RTC.  When I run the installation script, it
> > completes successfully.  But when I go to boot, it brings up the above
> > error.
> >
> Without seeing the error, my first guess is that while you did include
that
> /h0, you didn't note what hard drive driver it pointed at.  Lots and lots
> of changes have been made, so we'll probably need to know that before we
> can help without doing the Sunday morning chicken dance, where the
chicken,
> intended for dinner, is headless.
>
> > Can anyone shed light on this?
> >
> > Nitros9 has some interesting changes, some which I like and other which
> > have me pulling out my hair wondering why 'they' changed that.  :)
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -A.
> >
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