[Coco] NOS9 Boot_Burke

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 18:06, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>I looked for krnl2dir, krnltodir and vfy in RTSI, but didn't find.
>Please, could you perhaps be more specific.
>
>I looked in the NOS9 SCRIPTS and BootLists but found nothing that
>affects the hidden boot files.
>
>Does the NOS9 DSIKINI.EXE work to pass .DSK PC files to OS9 readable
>floppies?
>
>Thankyou,
>
>/Chester
>
Humm, I was going to browse rtsi.com and find them, but rtsi.com seems to 
be on the missing list this evening.  Sorry.  And there is a util that 
generates new track 34's, it might be a script named mb, for make boot.


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett at verizon.net]
>Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:18 PM
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [Coco] NOS9 Boot_Burke
>
>On Monday 23 October 2006 17:44, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>>Precisely my dilema, I don't know how to exchange the standard NOS9
>>BOOT with the Boot_Burke file. I've never played with the boottrack
>
>before.
>
>>In the case of the B&B system, on the MFM HD, track 128 (and track 129
>>for the ALTBoot) contains this file hidden away in there along with REL
>>
>>and what not.
>
>I have, on rtsi I believe, a utility that might help to educate.  Called
>krnl2dir or krnltodir maybe.  It generates a directory entry that points
>at this otherwise hidden file.  Once thats done you can use my 'vfy'
>utility to split it up into the 5 pieces it actually is.  Theres the 6
>byte header that rsdos uses to identify it as an os9 disk when you type
>dos, then the 3 pieces of the original 1st stage boot, called rel, boot
>and what was once os9p1, followed by an interrupt table that got loaded
>into the top $10 bytes of ram.  All of which are important.
>
>But, if you get the latest NOS9 distro from nitros9.org, there are
>suitable utilities and scripts in there to facilitate the mods you are
>contemplating.  There are many ways to skin that cat.
>
>What I wrote back then was because there was no other way to do it, now
>there is.

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