[Coco] Re: Re: Booting NitrOS9 from Drive 1 (Boisy Pitre)

Tue Sep 19 00:37:39 EDT 2006

Well, I took a look at boot_1773_6ms using Ded and I found the 3-byte CRC value at the end of the file. Prior to that however, the 4th byte from the end of the file has a value of $39. In fact, it's the last in a series of 18 bytes with a value of $39. So I'm thinking the byte that designates the drive # is probably somewhere else. Any thoughts?

Fred Provoncha
Stansbury Park, UT

>Fred,
>
>The 4th to last byte (the one just before the 3 byte CRC) of the boot  
>module holds the drive # to boot from.  It is by default, 0, and  
>changing it to 1 should allow it to boot from Drive 1.
>
>Note that your bootfile's /DD device should be a copy of your /D1  
>descriptor for the boot to be successful.
>--
>Boisy G. Pitre

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