[Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems

[Don Johnson]

Sorry, I don't see anything being printed on the other than 

		OS9 BOOT

		 FAILED


-Don


On 2010-12-02, at 5:00 PM, gene heskett wrote:


> On Thursday, December 02, 2010 07:53:19 pm Don Johnson did opine:

> 

>> Robert

>> 

>> Okay, well let me restate my problem and try to fill in some of your

>> questions.

>> 

>> For a first step I copied the drivers available from the Glenside disk

>> to the module directory on a copy of the OS-9 Boot disk.  I re-named

>> the cc3hdisk_16_50.dr driver to cc3hdisk.dr because after many failed

>> attempts the config utility program in the next step seemed to be

>> looking for that name. I did not re-name the h0_16.dd.

>> 

>> I then called the config command from the Boot disk and followed the

>> instructions as directed on screen, as described in the OS-9 manual,

>> Chapter 7, on how to create a new system diskette.  During that process

>> I selected to include the module for printer (P), PIPE, /d0_35S,

>> /d1_35S, and /h0_16.  I selected the TERM_WIN with all the available

>> windows.  I put in a newly formatted floppy and let the work begin in

>> created a new system disk.

>> 

>> When I tried to boot into OS-9 with that system disk (floppy),  which I

>> believe to have been built with a hard drive device, it starts off

>> normal enough with the 'OS-9 BOOT' message on the screen, and then

>> shortly after that the word 'FAILED' appears below and the floppy

>> stops.

>> 

> Ok, a further question here, at the top left of the screen, it should start 

> to print something, probably 'KREL boot' if the unmarked boottrack was 

> found and loaded, which may be followed by some of the other names included 

> in the os9boot file if it is successfully loaded and read.  There may be a * 

> followed by a single ascii character, which is $80 is added to it, 

> represents the error number.

> 

> Please copy to the this list, every character it prints at the top of the 

> screen, preserving case and all.

> 

>> That is as far as I have gotten.

>> 

>> There is no error message other than 'FAILED' and I don't get a shell

>> prompt,  so I guess you could say the system locked up, but a reset

>> will take me back to the DECB prompt.

> 

> This is normal if the boot was not successful.

> 

>> I don't know what the boot

>> process is looking at.  I don't know if there is a /DD descriptor in

>> the OS9Boot, and I don't know what the Init would be either.  Any help

>> in how to figure these things out would be useful information as well. 

>> I'm sure it is probably in the OS-9 manual somewhere but I haven't

>> managed to read that far yet, and neither /DD or Init appear in the

>> glossary or index.

>> 

>> As I stated in my original message I must be missing something.  I've

>> read through the documentation sent with the interface boards and have

>> not seen, or understood there to be, any other steps required.  "All

>> you need to do to make a new boot disk is to add the hard disk driver

>> and hard disk descriptor to your boot file".  I believe I have done

>> that with the creation of a new System diskette with the hard drive

>> driver and descriptor included.  I may be wrong.

>> 

>> While I was successful in running the detect_ide.b09 program to see the

>> ide hard drive attached to the interface, I was not able to format the

>> drive because I could never start OS-9 with a hard drive device name. 

>> It is kind of hard to say "format /h0" when it doesn't know what /h0

>> is, and I do get an error when I try it but you probably already

>> guessed that.

>> 

>> -Don

>> 

>> On 2010-12-02, at 4:47 AM, Robert Gault wrote:

>>> Don,

>>> You can't expect to get useful answers if you don't tell us what is

>>> going wrong. Merely saying the Glenside IDE does not work for me

>>> tells us next to nothing.

>>> 

>>> When you try your boot disk, is it a floppy or a Basic disk on the

>>> hard drive? Whichever, what do you see on the screen after entering

>>> DOS? Does the boot process go at all but look for files on the wrong

>>> drive? Are there any error messages or does the whole system just

>>> lock up? How did you create the boot disk and what is the content of

>>> the OS9Boot file supposed to be? Is the Boot module one for a floppy

>>> or one for the IDE unit? What do the /H0 and /DD descriptors point

>>> to? What does Init point to?

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