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

[George Ramsower]

It is important that GRFDRV is in the CMDS directory on the floppy or it 
won't boot. Other than OS9Boot, that's all that's needed on the floppy. I'm 
sure there's a guru type of workaround for this. Since I'm not a guru, I 
only do what works out of the box.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <Yahoo at DVDPlayersOnly.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)


> Verne,
>
>  The way you describe it is probably the same as what I do on my main coco
> system.....
>
>  The default drive is /h0. That is set in the /dd descriptor.
>
>  The floppy only contains OS9Boot and in the CMDS directory there is only
> GRFDRV.
>
>  Once the OS9Boot and GRFDRV is loaded, it then goes to the hard drive,
> finishes the loading of things such as shell and runs STARTUP, if you have
> one.
>  The boot from floppy only takes about fifteen seconds. The rest of the
> startup process is done completely from the hard drive.
>
>  The ONLY difference in this setup and the OEM setup is the /dd. That
> device descriptor is in /sys/config and needs to be used in the boot file 
> in
> place of the stock /dd descriptor. In MY system, the default drive
> descriptor is ddho.dd.scsi
>
>
> Is this what you wanted to do?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 8:05 AM
> Subject: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)
>
>
>> Ok, we're straying way the heck off track here :). Lemme lay this out 
>> again:
>>
>> What I have to work with:
>>
>> A working hard drive and SCSI controller with no support for booting 
>> directly from the hard drive.
>>
>> A working OS9 boot floppy with /dd and /d0 as the floppy and /h0 as the 
>> hard drive.
>>
>> All the standard disk manipulation tools (ezgen/etc, ded)
>>
>> The goal:
>>
>> Boot from floppy and finish with the hard drive as /dd, the working 
>> directory set to /dd, and the execution directory set to /dd/cmds.
>>
>> I will not/can not:
>>
>> Rewrite BOOT or any other module (I can patch where required, not a 
>> programmer).
>>
>> Buy an RS-BASIC replacement.
>>
>> How do I get there from here? :)
>>
>> Vern
>>
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