[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Robert

Why not use a flash instead of a ROM/EPROM? That way the flash can be 
rewritten. Maybe then Nitros9 can be written to boot from flash and update 
to the flash. 

This can be done. The Pagewriter 2000 booted OS-9 that was ported to the 
Dragonball from a 4 megabit flash. There were provisons for the OS to be  
updated with new compiled kernals. 

I have often thought of replacing the interanl ROM with a flash and use 
jumpers to select OS. 

james  

On 5 Aug 2007 at 17:56, Robert Gault wrote:

>   The "problem" with booting from a ROM as Roger asks rather than a
>   hard
> drive, is that you are locked into at least a specific kernel. That
> means cobbler and os9gen have lost some of their usefulness. It is
> important to be able to make changes to the core OS-9/NitrOS-9 modules
> at will as needed without needing to burn a new EPROM.
>   Using a CF card more easily reloaded with new code should be just as
> good as booting from hard drive directly.