[Coco] shell in NitrOS-9

[Wayne Campbell]

Thanks for the quick reply, Boisy. :)

I tried cobbler. It didn't work. I also found that the standard.bl and 
dw3.bl bootlist files do not contain the descriptors for the hd. Aaron made 
me a custom bootdisk that includes the /h0 descriptor. I need to make a 
custom file to be able to use it. There is a sysgo_h option for which sysgo 
to use. All I need to do now is find the hd descriptors and add them to the 
list. Maybe I can get it to work.

On my old CoCo3, I had a Disto controller (no-halt floppies were nice), and 
a 20-meg HD I got with a Tandy 2000 I bought from a Radio Shack. I was able 
to boot from the hd.

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] shell in NitrOS-9


> On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>
>> The shell that gets loaded (with all the merged modules in the file) has 
>> a different ident from the shell_21 module in the same directory. Since 
>> the shell that loads has the functionality of using cd/cx instead of 
>> chd/chx, and type ahead, I presume it is shell+. What is shell_21? Should 
>> I make a new shell file that uses it instead of the default shell?
>
> Wayne,
>
> shell_21 is the original shell that came with OS-9 Level One/Level Two. 
> The shell with the merged modules is indeed shell+.
>
>>
>> Related, but not, can I cobbler a HD and make it a boot disk? I want to 
>> try it, but I'm afreaid if it doesn't work, I'll have to reformat the 
>> drive, and I just did that. I don't want to have to reformat the very 
>> next day, so I'm asking first. lol
>
> cobbler writes out the bootfile in memory to a device.  If your bootfile 
> boots from a floppy disk, then cobbler'ing to a hard drive really doesn't 
> buy you anything.  Plus cobbler writes to track 34 (sectors 618-630) which 
> would require special a special ROM.  For those reasons, I don't think 
> cobbler will work.
>
>> Wayne
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