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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Mark Marlette wrote:
>D,
>
>I always get the HD script to create a good bootable floppy then run
>the mb_HDB script then to create the HDB floppy which is then backed
>up to a vir drive and then linked.
>
>The ONLY difference between a HDB-DOS boot and a hard drive boot using
>the scripts is the BOOT TRACK.

Unforch Mark, there is only the 'mb' script present in the 80 track images 
script dir, and only a 'standard.bl' in the bootlists directory.  We are 
having to invent the others as we go, hence the flurry of questions.

>Mark
>
>Quoting Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>:
>> 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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