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

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Wed Jan 21 11:05:41 EST 2015


On Wednesday 21 January 2015 09:47:51 L. Curtis Boyle did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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

I've heard of it, but was never able to locate it.
> 
> > On Jan 21, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Michael Rowen <mike at borncoco.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From memory, I believe its track 34 - see the DOS command.
> > 
> > Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> As I am almost ready to start backing up my OS-9 floppy disks, my
> >> brane cells are kicking in with some memories.
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> There wasn't really anything special about that track beyond the
> >> boot module that got os9boot from whatever source (SCSI, floppy,
> >> etc.), right?
> >> 
> >> 		-- A


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