[Coco] MM/1 question

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/6/03 8:34:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bdevries at gil.com.au writes:

> os9gen -e -q /h1fmt

You *did* remember to use the -e switch, required for boots greaters than 
64K, so that's not the problem.

>  When I try to boot with this drive, the MM/1 goes through its usual spiel:
>  Attempting to boot from floppy drive
>  Attempting to boot from hard disk
>  Booting from non-contigous bootfile

I always get the "non-contiguous" message, so I've always assumed that my 
bootfile was in fact non-contiguous.  The ability to boot from a fragmented 
(normal style) file was a big advance of OS/K over OS/9.

BTW, making boots under OSK is in some ways harder than for OS/9.  There's no 
Cobbler to save your current RAM configuration to disk, and no EzGen utility 
to "edit" a boot by adding or replacing a few modules.  Nope, you have to 
start with a fresh bootlist every time, and a dir full of modules.  You edit the 
bootlist or move modules in and out of the directory to make changes.

>  Attempting to boot from ROM

Wow, I've never seen this one!  Often my MM/1 freezes up when trying to boot 
from the HD, but never gets to this.  I hit Reset and sometimes that fixes it. 
 If not, power cycling usually does.  If that fails, I boot from a handy 
floppy, and it pulls StartUp from the HD, freeing it up just fine.

BTW, my MM/1's HD is only 40 Meg.  A "real" 68070 MM/1.  --Mike K.