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

[Bob Devries]

Hi Robert,

Yes, I was actually aware of that as an option, however, I have never 
partitioned my hard drive that way, being primarily an OS9 man.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Cobbler and hard disks was:Re: shell in NitrOS-9


> 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.
>
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