[Coco] System gen problem

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:

>> No, because I do not want it to boot from DW.  The goal is to boot from
>> floppy, log to my hard drive as the default disk and simply have the DW
>> volumes available on line.
>>
>
> Ahh, the light comes on.  In that case the /X descriptors, and the driver
> they name s/b sufficient to at least rattle the cage.  From a dump of the
> descriptor, I see rbf and dw3, so I'd assume rbf.mn, and dw3.sb would be
> needed in the os9boot file. So  I'll go away and let the folks that have that
> working have the last word.

Thanks for your input anyway, Gene!  We'll figure this out sooner or 
later.  I've noticed that the failure modes are different if I start from 
a power-cycle reset vs. a push-button reset.  I hate to apply logic from 
the large Unix systems I spend time on, but this almost "feels" like an 
uninitialized variable somewhere.

Boisy / Aaron:  Is it possible that something in the DW driver chain is 
not getting initialized in the case where DW is not the default drive?

Steve


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