[Coco] Floppy - less boot , was Re: VI and VIRQ

[Diego Barizo]

My doubts come from the fact that, actually, I'm booting from a virtual 
floppy in the HD.
I thought that for the system, it would be just as booting from a real 
diskette...
How does it work in this case?

Diego

PS, I'm playing Dungeons of Daggorath right now, with a real CoCo hooked 
up to the PC's video capture card, and seeing it full screen in a 
semi-transparent layover... coooooool! :-D




Robert Gault wrote:
> Diego Barizo wrote:
>> Now that it comes to mention. I've been trying to create a custom 
>> 1s35t boot disk for my HDB-DOS / SuperIDE setup, completely 
>> unsuccessfully so far.
>> Looking around, I found a mention of the bug in the rb1773 driver, 
>> and the symptoms match the ones I see, freezing after tb ...... at 
>> boot time.
>> Will this bug affect an attempt to boot from a HDB-DOS virtual drive?
>> When I try that, I get all the ..... at boot, and then bCCCC%%V Date 
>> Save Unlink GrfDrv Backup Date # t*j , and final freeze.
>> Here is my bootlist file, which could be the cause of my problems...
> ><snip>
>
> Looks to me that you have the wrong /dd descriptor in your boot file. 
> If you want to boot from the hard drive, /dd must be a hard drive 
> descriptor. You chose an 80 track floppy for /dd.
>
> RB1773 will not be used at all when booting from a hard drive so if 
> rb1773 is buggy, it won't matter during the boot process.
>
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