[Coco] Booting OS9 from Drive 1

[Bill Barnes]

Maybe I should have read one message further, and saved sending my reply. LOL. Same idea I had, Stephen.

-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.


--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Stephen Castello <zootzoot at cfl.rr.com> wrote:


> From: Stephen Castello <zootzoot at cfl.rr.com>

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Booting OS9 from Drive 1

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 11:01 AM

> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:06:03 -0700

> (PDT), Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com>

> had

> a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

> 

> >I am having a problem being able to boot OS-9 in the

> following configuration. I have an FD-502 Drive housing with

> a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive. My 3.5" drive is set as drive 0

> and my 5.25" is set as drive 1. I have some old 5.25" OS-9

> based disks that need to boot using the DOS command. I

> switch to drive1 and then type DOS. It starts to load OS-9,

> goes to the Loading OS-9 Screen but will then automatically

> switch to drive 0 trying to access the boot data on drive 0

> and not boot from the 5.25" disk in drive 1. I have tried

> using the drive1 command to set it as the boot drive but no

> luck.

> >

> >Is there an easy way to make it so I can boot off drive

> 1 and uses these old 5.25" OS-9 disks without having to make

> a backup on to a 3.5" drive for each disk I want to boot?

> >

> 

> One way is modify your drive setup.  Install a double

> pole-double

> throw switch on the drive select jumpers on the two drives

> to swap

> them as needed.

> 

> 

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> 

> Stephen

> 

> Disc space -- the final frontier!

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