[Coco] Request for Discussion new level 2 Nitros9 booting.

[Brett Gordon]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brett, I do see the things you wish, but OS9 or Nitros9 neither give this.  It would be nice to have some of your suggestions but would require a big recode.on a few of those.
>
> Bill Nobel


Big rewrites?  not really.  I changed 4 source files including the
level2 makefile.  I made a patch file for anyone's perusal:

https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/home/anitros9patchfileforversion330/cocoboot.patch


This patch works in VCC, MESS, a real CoCo3 and booted ok from
floppy,becker,dw4,dw3.  I have to add a simple deblocking routine for
cocoboot to read IDE or SCSI before I can test those devices.
Basically,  I've done the big rewrite.   check the Nitros9 source code
 for level2/modules/kernel/ccbkrn.txt  it explain the hairy details of
my change.

If you make an image from this patch, it should boot the old fashioned
way. if you get cocoboot2 running, and more importantly, *configured*,
it'll boot the new way too. (at least in theory!)

-- 
Brett M. Gordon,
beretta42 at gmail.com