[Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 23 09:56:13 EST 2014


Hey Bob, I tried Kwikgen but it barfed on the fact that the boot files need the 2 _end modules, one after the SCF modules and one after RBF.  I'm gonna wait a bit till I get a compilable version that I can truly play with.  I think the boot files still has some hardware modules that don’t exist on VCC (i.e. clock and cc3go descriptors).  I know your boot has SCSII drivers already.

Bill Nobel

> On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> it was a long time ago that I built my L3 OS9Boot file. I suspect that I probably used something like KwikGen to do it. It is capable of removing and inserting modules without taking apart the whole OS9Boot file.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> 
> On 23/11/2014 2:30 PM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>> Hi Robert,  I do have a couple a copies from Alan Dekok and Bob Devries.  They don’t boot on my VCC because of hardware config differences, but I have been disassembling them to be able to rebuild a working copy.  I have so far discovered that the main modules for Alan's mod for separate SCF/RBF pages is contained in OS9P1, Nitros9 and IOMAN modules.  I haven’t got to SCF/RBF for decoding, but the way I see at the moment they are stock Nitros9 from a earlier version.
>> 
>> The boot disk has to be made a specific way, which I have been, so far unsuccessful.  I am sure there are other differences yet to come in the other modules.  I have seen a few odd coding things from Alan so far that is quite different than L2 release (comparing to v3.3.0)
>> 
>> I am putting all the code i decode with merged comments from the actual Nitros9 repo code in a GitHub repo.  I don’t want to give the link up to the list yet, as this is a expert level OS9 user thing and the code is not yet compilable, to meet Alan’s copy for the core kernel.  But if someone is interested PM me and I will let you into it, just don’t make it public, as I don’t want mass email with why it won’t compile, etc….
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>>> On Nov 22, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If anyone has a Level3 disk that actually boots, would you please send my self and Gene Keskett a copy by email. We have been trying to see why the code in the NtirOS-9 repository for Level3 does not work. The job is next to impossible and comparison with a working copy may be our only hope.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Robert
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