[Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

[Vern Burke]

Robert:
    These are the exact same descriptors that work fine with /dd as the 
floppy. I changed the names by doing a rename with ezgen.

Vern


Robert Gault wrote:

> Perhaps you have overlooked that more than changing the name of /D0 to 

> /DD is necessary when redirecting the boot process. Use dEd to examine 

> the /D0 and stock /DD descriptors and you will see that the driver name 

> is included in the descriptor and likely is cc3disk.

> 

> Does your current /DD descriptor call cc3disk or hdisk? You will need a 

> descriptor which includes the correct driver name if you want your hard 

> drive to function via /DD. Use /H0 (if that is your hard drive 

> descriptor) as the model, make a copy, use dEd to change the name from 

> H0 to DD, verify, and you should have better luck.

> 

> Vern Burke wrote:

> 

>> Ok, I'm getting somewhere now (uhuh, sure :)). Init and cc3go appear 

>> to be correctly patched. If I leave DD as the floppy drive, the boot 

>> will finish with the paths set as /dd and /dd/cmds, just the ticket, 

>> so I believe the boot floppy is set up 100% correctly.

>>

>> The remaining problem is switching /dd to the hard drive. The process 

>> gets to "OS9 BOOT", reads the hard drive extensively, and then crashes

>> badly. cc3go is on the root of the hard drive, shell and grfdrv are in 

>> cmds, all modules ident good and proper attributes.

>>

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