[Coco] os9 copy is not reporting an error

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 15 December 2003 14:33, David wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:36:22PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Tonight I tried to copy a new os9boot file into an otherwise
>> working disk.
>>
>> Knowing that it must be contiguous, I first set the disks
>> attribute for sas to $90.  The copy went nicely, but when I then
>> checked the fd for the file preparatory to adjusting the data for
>> DD.BT and DD.SIZ in LSN0, imagine my surprise when I found the
>> file was split, the first allocation only being for $75 sectors,
>> with the last $15 being 2/3rds of the way to the inner track.
>
>Gene,
>
>With the OS9tools, there's an "os9 gen" command, too.
>
>How about making a "rescue" boot disk with these tools?  You have to
>specify the location of your bootstrap files ( the track 34 stuff).

I'd done that, but the -t= option always failed. Even when directly 
executing the binary of os9gen from the distribution disk.

Anyway, I've managed to get the distribution disk to boot, and I've 
replaced the os9boot file with the one from virtual disk 128.  But it 
crashes at the end of spitting out the names of all the modules in 
the bootfile, taking the screen display with it.  So we're back to 
square one I guess.  At least the disto disk will boot, but it has no 
knowledge of the hard drive of course.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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