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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Mark Marlette wrote:
>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.

Yes you did, with probably 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 at the time, it has been a few years 
now. 2001 I think, but no bible within reach.

>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.

It would be nice if that was in the newer images.  Tis not.

>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.

Yur making me jealous you know. :-)  OTOH, I'm doing it on the real hardware.

>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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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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