[Coco] NOS9 Boot_Burke

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 23 October 2006 15:20, Chester A Patterson wrote:

>How does one install the NOS9 Boot_Burke (ident returns BOOT) module

>into an NOS9Boot file?

>In the distant past (17+ years ago - jeepers! That's a long time!), when

>I made up B&B ST225, ST251 and ST4096 systems, I just used the B&B

>"modpatch l2bpatch" command on the BOOT module in RAM then cobbled up a

>new disk. But Boot is not a regular boot file module that I can just

>EZGen from a disk into another disk's OS9Boot file...

>

First, that boot module isn't in the NOS9boot file, its in the boottrack 
wherever it might be located, the entire track 34 of an old os9 boot 
floppy.


>Also, the B&B XT ROM allows installing two bootfiles (OS9Boot and

>AltBoot) on tracks 128 and 129 respectively of the HD. There's two Boot

>file patches in the B&B release disk (L2BPatch and AltL2BPatch), one for

>each boot file. I would like to have both boot files on my HD (ALTBoot

>for Multiview, once I figure out how to make it work with NOS9).  Will

>this be possible with NOS9? (Everything is possible with OS9! However it

>depends on one's expertise, and mine is quite lacking!)

>

>Last but not least, is it possible to run DeskMate3 in NOS9? From what I

>read, yes. But before I spend all kinds of time trying to make it work,

>you guys experience will save me a lot of time (and grief)

>

>Thankyou.

>

>/Chester in (rainy) Costa Rica


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