[Coco] Cobbler and hard disks was:Re: shell in NitrOS-9

[Robert Gault]

Bob Devries wrote:
> Apart from the Burke&Burke XTROM system, I don't know of any Coco hard
> disk system which will boot directly to OS9 from a cold start without a
> floppy disk.
>
> I've been hoping to see such a system for my SCSI setup, but it never
> happened.
>
> Regards, Bob Devries

The original RGBDOS that came with the Ken-Ton scsi system would boot 
from RSDOS "disks" on the hard drive. RGBDOS for emulators will do the 
same as will HDBDOS.
In effect you are booting from the hard drive but not the OS-9 portion. 
Once the kernel and os9boot file are loaded from the portion of the hard 
drive assigned to Disk Basic, the boot process continues from the OS-9 
portion of the hard drive.