[Coco] cobbler'd disks

[Stephen Castello]

If you're using /dd, is it pointing to the drive with the CMDS with
grfdrv & shell?  Also check the TPI setting.

Stephen

On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:05:37 -0400, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>dmode shows mgr=RBF ddr=rb1773 cyl=0028 and sid=02 in NitrOS-9 and in OS-9
>its the same except for CC3disk.  sysgo is in the root of the NitrOS-9 disk
>but I wasn't aware I needed anything else on the OS-9 disk other than
>os9boot in the root and grfdrv and shell in CMDS.  I am able to make a 40
>track SINGLE sided boot disk, but whenever I try to make a 40 track DS disk
>it won't boot.  Any more suggestions?
>
>On 5/14/07, Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>
>> mike delyea wrote:
>> > This applies to OS-9 and NitrOS-9 - when I cobbler a 40 track
>> double-sided
>> > disk it won't boot.  I have placed grfdrv and shell on the newly
>> cobblered
>> > disk.  I have no problems formatting, writing and reading DS40 disks.
>> >
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>> What does dmode show for the descriptor of the drive you are using? If
>> your kernel does not include sysgo or cc3go (depending on what system
>> you are using) is the file in the root directory of the disk from which
>> you are trying to boot?
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