[Coco] I finally got Nitros 3.2.4 to work!

[Mark Marlette]

At 8/25/2004 09:31 PM -0500, you wrote:

Boisy / Fred,

Scripts are there or were. He needs to have a good hard drive boot before 
he goes to HDB-DOS. The only difference is the SSDD and the boot module. 
The Cloud-9 script does this all for you. Do you think I make these up 
different every time? Nope, run the script and done!

Mark
Cloud-9



>On Aug 25, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:
>
>>
>>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:16:13 -0500 Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net>
>>writes:
>>>At 8/24/2004 10:46 PM -0600, you wrote:
>>>
>>>Fred,
>>>
>>>Cloud-9 Lab North sent you the disks and they were verified here
>>>before I
>>>sent them. Sounds like you have hardware issues.
>>
>>Yes, I totally agree with you. I believe there is nothing wrong with the
>>disks you guys sent me at all. I also think it is a hardware problem. My
>>Coco can't seem to read any 1440-sector floppy disks properly, regardless
>>of where they came from. I'm not sure why or how though. I'm not so
>>worried about that problem right now though. I'm just happy I was able to
>>get access to a working boot disk image using Drivewire. That product has
>>really come in handy! My goal right now is to get NitrOS-9 3.2.4 fully
>>configured on my hard drive.
>
>Fred,
>
>It sounds like you have an alignment issue with your drives, since you can 
>read those disks formatted on the drive but not on others.
>
>>Okay, I tried the scripts, but the scripts only create a boot disk that
>>enables NitrOS-9 to boot from a floppy. After looking over the scripts,
>>it's still not clear to me how to modify them to create a boot disk that
>>enables NitrOS-9 to boot from Drive 255 of the RGB-DOS partition of my
>>hard drive. I also still haven't figured out how to modify the scripts to
>>get the hi-res joystick interface to work. Anyone know? Thanks for your
>>help. I'm so excited to have NitrOS-9 3.2.4 actually running!
>
>I recommend copying the mb script to mb.hdb, then edit mb.hdb and change 
>boot_1773_6ms to the name of the SCSI boot module.
>
>Before running the script, use dmode to set d0 (or d1) to a single sided 
>35 track disk:
>
>dmode /d0 sid=1 cyl=35
>
>Then run the mb.hdb script.  Once the disk has been created, go into 
>RGB-DOS and BACKUP 0 (or 1) TO 255.
>
>Run the LINK.BAS program to link the bootfile copied onto drive 255.
>Then DOS 255.  Assuming your bootfile is set up correctly, it should work.
>
>As far as the hi-res joystick not working, I don't know about that.
>Frankly it should.  What test are you using to determine that it is not 
>working?
>
>Boisy
>
>
>>Fred
>>
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