[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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