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

[Vern Burke]

It's stock Disk Basic.

Once again, with the exception of the CoCo XT and XT ROM, I'm unaware of 
any other arrangement for directly booting to OS9 on a hard drive. I'm 
discounting your suggestion of HDBDOS, since, in that case, you're 
booting from an image of a floppy on an HDBDOS partition, which is more 
convenient but no different than booting from a real floppy.

There are cmds directories on both the floppy and the hard drive with 
identical copies of shell and grfdrv, all modules verfied good and 
attributes the same. cc3go is in the os9boot file, as per stock.

It's strange, the boot starts, progress's, access's the hard drive, and 
then fails. I think I'm 99% correct on this, I can't figure out what 
else it might be looking for on the hard drive and not finding.

Vern


Robert Gault wrote:
> Vern Burke wrote:
> 
>> OS is OS9 L2, the SCSI controller is a TCCC/Cloud 9 unit. The driver 
>> is TCC512 and, yes, the working floppy boot contains the driver and 
>> /h0 description for the hard drive. I sometimes wish for the old days 
>> of my CoCo XT and the XT ROM.
> 
> 
> OS-9 L2 is your OS after booting OS-9. What is in your Disk Basic ROM? 
> Is it stock Disk Basic or HDBDOS?
> 
>>
>> At the time I got mine, and as far as I know still, there is no 
>> provision to boot this combination without use of a floppy, or to load 
>> the boot track or os9boot from the hard drive.
> 
> 
> That will depend on what is in your disk ROM.
> 
>>
>> I certainly can just make the /dd descriptor the hard drive 
>> descriptor, the problem is that the boot will not finish with /dd set 
>> as working directory and /dd/cmds set as execution. The boot finshes 
>> up /d0 and /d0/cmds and it's a pain in the butt because I have to do a 
>> manual chd/chx to the hard drive.
> 
> 
> That must mean there are some missing OS-9 files on your hard drive. 
> Does CMDS contain grfdrv? If cc3go (or the equivalent) in your os9boot 
> file or is it in the root directory of your floppy? If it is not in 
> os9boot then it must be in the root directory of the hard drive as well 
> as on your floppy.
> 
>>
>> Vern
>> <snip> >
> 
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