[Coco] Nitros9 Boot Process

Walter zambotti at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 15 08:05:34 EST 2019


Thanks.

That makes sense for a boot from a floppy connected directly from the system.

How does HDB-DOS and DW4 change that?

When the vhd contains a number of preliminary floppies and then a hard drive HDB-DOS must load the kernel file from track 34 of the nominated floppy.  But the bootfile must reside where? The floppy or the hard drive.

Is it possible to mount the virtual floppies that precede the harddrive in a VHD so that they can be accessed from Nitros9 via DW?

If not the build process for creating a bootable VHD image must be via an external tool!

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Tormod Volden
Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2019 8:20 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 Boot Process

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Walter wrote:
>
> Where can I find a detailed description of the boot process and what sectors
> it expects to use, etc.

This might be helpful:
http://www.nitros9.org  -> "NitrOS-9 wiki for documentation" -> "The
NitrOS-9 Boot Process Explained"

Regards,
Tormod

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