[Coco] cobbler and hard disks

[Bob Devries]

Chuck,

OS9Gen is not supposed to write the kernel track *IF* it senses that there 
are files written to that track.

However, I believe that the logic for this is tied up with floppy operation, 
and hence only knows about single or double sided, and not multiple platters 
such as in hard disk drives.

Yeah, it would be useful to have an option to *not* write the kernel track, 
such as -nt (to add to the -t option already in the current version of 
OS9Gen, which will write a kernel track from a file).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Youse" <cyouse at serialtechnologies.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] cobbler and hard disks


> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:52 +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
>> To the best of my knowledge, the stock COBBLER is not supposed to be used 
>> on
>> a hard disk. It is in fact hard coded to write the boot loader/kernel to
>> track 34 of the floppy.
>>
>> Burke & Burke created a special programme for their hard disk adapter 
>> which
>> created a kernel on track 128 of the hard disk, but I don't know of any
>> others that allow this.
>
> Alrighty, thanks Bob.  I too have reserved a "special" area on the hard
> disk for the boot "track" which will require a similar specialized
> program to write the kernelp1/boot/rel there, so I'm not surprised.
>
> OS9Gen seems to do the right thing, though, w/r/t creating the boot
> file, but it seems to try to write the boot track as well, which is
> problematic.  May have to add a flag to it to stop it.
>
> C.
>
>
>
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