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

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

There has been some major leaps forward with NOS and Superdrivers.

I know that you asked about CDF. CDF requires NOS 3.2.6 and  
SuperDriver to work properly.

I could update you to 3.2.6 in ......20 minutes.....

There would be a fee + s/h. Let me know if that interests you, send private.

Mark

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

> 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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