[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[Christopher Hawks]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> I'm trying to gather the setups some of you OS-9/NitrOS-9 users have in 
> place that allows you to hit the power button on your CoCo then have the 
> OS-9 prompt within a few seconds, with no moving hard drives or MPI, or 
> DriveWire cable (although that's a very nice idea).
> 
> Can the SuperIDE interface do this, and if so, what add-ons are needed?  
> What about a NItrOS-9 ROM that completely boots up from the ROM?  If so, 
> can this ROM be put on a 32 kByte EPROM and replace the CoCo 3 ROM.  
> What about piggybacking an EPROM on the CoCo motherboard and clipping 
> some pins on the old ROM?  Anyone done this kind of hack to avoid the 
> infamous killer desolder job?

Roger:
	
	The SuperIDE does that 'from the factory'. At least if you have NitrOS9 on a CF 
installed by Cloud-9.

	Mine takes 10 seconds to boot from the CF (loads a bunch of stuff on startup) 
if I bypass the 15 second timeout that lets you chose OS9 or DECB. Just a 
SuperIDE plugged into the ROM port (and a 15" LCD display).

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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