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

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

Holy cow! :)

I am sure you are looking at the NOS 3.2.6 distrib. disk when you say  
there is just 'mb'.

I don't recall your exact setup or if I even configured yours or not.

Currently ALL systems that are configured from Cloud-9 have a standard  
distribution. There are mb_floppy_dd, mb_hard and mb_hdb.

Names descriptive of what they do along with a readme.txt on the root  
indicating why/where to make a floppy boot.

On a real coco I can configure the system in ~20 minutes. To save time  
I now create using images on the PC. That time is now, 45 seconds.

Mark
Cloud-9

Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:

> 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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