[Coco] NitrOS9 boot module

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Thu Aug 9 03:12:06 EDT 2007


Bob Devries wrote:

> Would I be right in surmising that the Boot module in the Kernel track 
> in the current version of NitrOS9 can no longer handle single-sided 
> disks? Do I need to resort to using a boot module from a much earlier 
> distribution, or from the original OS9 distribution?
> 
> I want to be able to place a 35 track disk image onto one of the disk 
> basic partitions of the VHD file that came with VCC. To do that, it 
> *must* be a 35 track single-sided image. Everything I have tried with 
> the current NitrOS9 has failed to make a bootable disk, except when I 
> use a double-sided image.
> 
> What's going on? It seems we have come full circle from the old days of 
> being locked into single-sided disks, to being locked into double-sided 
> ones.
> 

The problem has already been corrected in the source code. No idea when 
the next release of NitrOS-9 will be.



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