[Coco] nitros9.org

[Christopher Hawks]

Frank Pittel wrote:
> I noticed that the page is now back up. Unfortunatly I couldn't find what I
> was hoping for. As I understand the latest and greatest version of os9gen has
> a bug in it which presents itself when building a kernel for use on a CF card
> that is partitioned for use by HDB and Nitros9
> 
> I am having another problem that I'm hoping I can get some help with. I have a
> CF card that I bought today with the idea of installing both HDB and Nitros9 onto.
> (Interestingly enough I think I found a bug with HDB and it's dealing with the
> particular brand of card I have. Any data written to the card with "save" or "copy"
> is lost at reboot. However if written to the virtual file with "backup" it's fine.
> The card works fine with nitros though. <Boisy if you have any interest in this let
> me know and I'll send you the card when I get a replacement>) What I need is a "bootlist"
> and script that will allow me to gen a bootable floppy. Amoung the modules I need
> installed is the hardware clock on my superide card, Superdriver and drivewire. I have
> the modules I need but I just can't seem to build a os9boot file that will boot. :-(
> It would help if someone could email me what you have working for you for the 6309.

Frank:

	The os9gen bug shows up first when to you run "link.bas" after backing 
up the bootdisk to an HDB-DOS disk. It will report the bootfile size and 
location, but, will say the bootfile size is zero bytes! The bug causes 
_all_ bootfiles to be the fragmented type, and "link.bas" can't handle this.

	If "link.bas" gives a real file size, you don't have the bug. The 
change has been committed to CVS.


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Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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