Ryou re: [Coco] Nitros9 3.2.0 6809L2 on real hardware

Boisy Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Tue Dec 16 06:20:34 EST 2003


Willard,

On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:52 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> Playing around with it tonight, seeing if it likes my hardware...
>
> A weird thing/bug: adding these three lines to disk1's startup file
> crashes NitrOS-9.
>
> iniz /w1
> display 1b 20 02 00 00 50 18 00 02 02 > /w1
> shell i=/w1 &
>
> Sometimes it just hangs, sometimes with sparklies or the VDG cursor 
> will
> turn a strange color.

What distribution are you running? 6309 or 6809?

> This is on the distribution disk 1.  OS9boot's CRCs are all good, it
> has windint, w, and w1-w7.
> If I type in those commands to the shell after it's running, they work
> fine, but putting them in startup doesn't.  Weird.

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll have to try this and attempt to track 
down what is happening.

> I've also been having some trouble getting it to boot with /dd as my
> Glenside IDE drive.  As /H0, it works, and will boot with the sysgo_h0
> on the boot floppy.  I haven't tested all possibilities yet.
>
> Willard
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