[Coco] Remind me: OS-9 boot track . . . ?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

It is track 34. Bruce Isted had made a BUTIL utility to read/write boot tracks at will - don’t know if that is in the repository or not.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Jan 21, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Michael Rowen <mike at borncoco.com> wrote:
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> From memory, I believe its track 34 - see the DOS command.
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> Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> As I am almost ready to start backing up my OS-9 floppy disks, my brane cells are kicking in with some memories.
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>> I may very well have a bunch of boot disks (before I had a hard drive) that I want to copy, but I think I should be okay just doing an "arc" (dsave for impatient people) to copy them to a folder on my new drive. The only thing this wouldn't get is whatever was on the boot track.
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>> There wasn't really anything special about that track beyond the boot module that got os9boot from whatever source (SCSI, floppy, etc.), right?
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