[Coco] How do you modify os9boot file

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I still find Kwikgen much easier (and faster). There is a couple on EOU, but it runs fine on stock OS9 as well. And it has built in help at each of its menus (just hit ‘?’). Use KWIKGEN #48K to handle even maximum sized boot files. 

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> On Apr 11, 2020, at 8:45 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2020, at 7:20 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How can I add a new device descriptor to a exist os9boot using a real coco.
>> Can you plese provide the steps to do it?
> 
> The best thing for stock OS-9 was to get Burke & Burke’s EZGEN utility. (There is another I have never used that may be better - KWIKGEN I think it is called. I just don’t know how to use it.)
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> EZGEN could edit a boot file and insert or remove modules. It would either use a temp file, then when done, make that temp file the new boot (slower but safer) or edit the boot file in place (dangerous!). If you screw up, you have a bat boot. But you can do that even with a temp file, but at least you can abort with no harm.
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> Say you have stuff like this in your boot file:
> 
> ...
> vdgint
> term
> windint
> w0
> w1
> …
> 
> And you wanted to delete w1… You could do something like
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> ezgen -dm /d0/os9boot
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> I think that’s -descriptive and -manual.  Then it goes to a prompt and lets you “link” to a module, then go “next” to the next one, etc, and you can “delete” and “insert”.
> 
> So I think you’d type something like
> 
> l w1
> d
> q
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> That would link to w1 so that’s where ezgen was pointing, then delete it, then quit to write it out. You could easily add and change things without ever making a new boot disk.
> 
> The software and manual should be on the archive site but if you are starting new, KWIKGEN may be better.
> 
>        — Allen
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