[Coco] NitrOS9 fun

[Bill Pierce]

Bill there's been some problems with format and it's memory handling. Some were saying it was because of big bootfiles, but I've run both big and small bootfiles and have had various results with both.
First, format will NOT run from a shell script for some reason. I have very few problems running it from the command line so the shell script to build a boot will always fail unless you format your disk manually first and comment out the format command in the script. Then it will run.
Some can't seem to get format to run from the command line, though I don't have as much problem with that and I run a HUGE bootfile.

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 10:07 am
Subject: [Coco] NitrOS9 fun


So, I finally had time to get back to NitrOS9 on my COCO.

It's a COCO3 with 6809 and 512K of memory, MPI FD502

with 2 drives and an HDB-DOS+ Drivewire PROM.


My intent is still to get NitrOS9 on a SCSI with my TC^3

controller.  Obviously, the first step would be to build a

new system that had the TC^3 drivers in the bootfile.

And that's where I find myself.  I made a new Bootlist

and a new MB Script. Every time I tried running it system

just hangs.  So, I decided to try manually running the

commands from the script.  I can't even get thru a format

without hanging the system.  I tried it with a real floppy

and with a Drivewire mounted disk.  I tried giving the

format command more than the default memory.  Zip.

I have another COCO3 and will probably change them

out for another try, but I hardly expect this could be a

hardware problem.  Unless someone here thinks maybe

this points at a problem with my memory expansion.

Otherwise, I am at a loss.  I assume people are actually

doing things with these systems but I can't seem to

get it to do anything.


Any suggestions gratefully accepted.


bill


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