[Coco] Some Coco Questions

[John Donaldson]

Robert,
    I would think the correct approach would be to modify to boot from 
/DD. Then It's only a matter of changing
the discriptor to be /DD, thus booting from what ever you want, 
floppy/hardrive/CFD/Ramdrive/etc.

John Donaldson




Robert Gault wrote:

> Derek wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of questions
>
>
>> 2nd Question: I have a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive hooked up to my real 
>> Coco III.
>
> > The 3.5" drive is set as drive 0 and the 5.25" is set as drive 1. What
> > I am having trouble with is using the DOS command on drive 1 to boot
> > OS-9 disks.
> > I used the "Drive1" command to make the 5.25" drive my default, then
> > type DOS and it reads the 5.25" drive for a moment, then switches to
>
>> reading the  3.5" Drive 0 and then goes back to the OK prompt.
>
> > Is there a way to boot OS-9 disks off a drive designated as Drive1?
>
>>
>> Thanks all!
>>
>
> Yes, that can be done but it requires new Boot, Init, and CC3Go or 
> SysGo modules in the kernel and OS9Boot file. It is easy to modify 
> Init or CC3Go to boot from /D1. Boot is hard coded for /D0 but the 
> source for NitrOS-9 has a provision for selecting the boot drive. In 
> short, you will need to do some assembly programming.
>
> The main question I have is why boot from /D1. Just boot your boot 
> disk on a 3.5" disk and boot from /D0. Much much less work.
>
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