[Coco] Booting NitrOS9 from Drive 1

[Boisy Pitre]

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.
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On Sep 17, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Fred D. Provoncha wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Here's a pretty simple question that I'm sure several of you may be  
> able to answer. What do I need to do to get configure a boot disk  
> so that it will successfully boot NitrOS9 from Drive 1 of a 2-drive  
> Coco system? I can create boot disks that boot from Drive 0 but  
> none of them of course can boot when put into Drive 1. I type in  
> DOS1, Drive 1's light comes on for a second, goes out, and then  
> Drive0's light comes on and waits for me to insert a boot disk into  
> Drive 0.
>
> I think I have it narrowed down to the boot module that is  
> installed on the boot track during the process of creating the boot  
> disk. The boot module I'm using is boot_1773_6ms, which comes with  
> the standard NitrOS9 distribution. It looks like that module is  
> configured to search for the OS9Boot file in Drive 0. How do I  
> change that?
>
> Fred Provoncha
> Stansbury Park, UT
>
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