[Coco] Trouble booting nitros9

[Mark Marlette]

At 5/1/2006 06:54 PM, you wrote:

Frank,

Did you have your CF backed up? DriveWire does this wonderfully.

The scripts to create were on the CF.

You need to run scripts to create your boots or you will be lost on 
any NitrOS-9 upgrade.

Mark






>I am looking for a script or better yet instructions on how to
>use os9gen to create a kernel for nitros and put it in the boot
>sector of a floppy. The reason for my needing to do this is an
>embarassing story of what not to do with a coco! :-(
>
>While at the fest on saturday I managed to pick up a few things
>from cloud-9. Amoung them a 6309 cpu and the nitros9 floppies for
>the 6309. Since Mark kindly setup the CF card I had with both HDB
>and Nitros9 for use with the 6809 that I was using I had never
>actually needed to know how. With a brand new 256meg cf card in hand
>I attempted to duplicate the configuration I had but for use with
>the 6309. To make a long story short while trying to setup the card
>with superdrive I managed to corrupt the superdrive disk I had and the
>backup I made. I also managed to render the nitros9 floopies that I
>had unbootable and to make things more fun mucked up the cf card that
>Mark had setup so it wouldn't boot anymore. I thought I had a emergency
>boot floppy for nitros but all it does is try to boot nitros on the
>cf card that won't boot.
>
>I think a large part of my problem is the result of a flacky floppy
>drive. The reason I say that is the plans I had for sunday were dependent
>on good weather. With it raining I packed up the offending hardware,
>drives, etc and brought it to the fest hoping to get some help with
>my problems. I met up with Boisy and he helped getting me a floppy
>with superdrive on it that would boot. When I got home the first thing
>I did was backup that floppy and proceded to try and fix the image that
>I had on the cf card. After the first try of fixing things I tried
>to boot off of the floppy again to try again. This time the boot hung
>the same way it had the night before. When I went to boot from the floppy
>Boisy had setup for me so I could make another working copy I found that
>it wouldn't boot either!! :-(
>
>After spending some time swearing I started to think about my current
>situation and how I could get out of it. It occured to me that I had
>nitros floppies that were bootable and made backups of those right away!
>I then started to realize that although the kernel was corrupt I still
>had the modules I needed to make a working system.
>
>Here's my dilema. To date I am missing the most important tool that I'm
>going to need to pull this off. That tool is knowledge. My intention is
>to make an emergancy floppy that contains basic capabilities and tools.
>These include a kernel that is capable of accessing the IDE drives that
>I have as well as using drivewire. Included would be a reasonable text
>editor. (ved)
>
>My problem is that there seem to be a number of system modules that need
>to be loaded. Does anyone have a list of modules I would need to include
>or possibly a script to do this? I would also need instructions on how to
>more the created kernel to the boot sector of a floppy.
>
>Frank
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