[Coco] problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09

[Bob Devries]

Answering my own question here.....

I found that OS9Gen doesn't like to have blank lines in the file of modules that are to be included in the OS9Boot file. Live & learn.

I also found out that edit will not work on a file that has a relative path:

edit ../bootlists/myboot.bl

returns error 216.
I'd bet that it tries to creat its SCRATCH file, but can't do that for some reason.

Regards, Bob Devries

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Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Devries 
  To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:40 PM
  Subject: problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09


  Hi All,

  I've been trying to create a custom boot disk from the latest NitrOS9 distribution, V03.02.09.

  I'm booting from the supplied disk image (using VCC). I created my own bootlist file called myboot.bl in the /NITROS9/6309L2/BOOTLISTS directory, and my own mb.myboot script file, which is identical to the file standard.bl, except I rem'd out the instruction to delete bttemp (I thought I was having a problem there).

  The script works fine up to step 3, and then gives an error 215. It continues to the end correctly, except that no OS9Boot file is produced, and Tempboot is left on the target disk. It's in the OS9Gen phase that the failure occurs.

  When I do an ident of the tempboot file, it quits at the RBF file. Somehow, the RBF file is not being read correctly. However, if I ident the file RBF.mn in /DD/NITROS9/6309L2/MODULES/RBF, it comes up correct.

  I have checked the paths to each and every module included in the myboot.bl file, and I can't see anything wrong.

  Can anyone give me any clues?

  Regards, Bob Devries

  --
  Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

  Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975