[Coco] NitrOS-9/6309 Level 1

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 October 2012 21:04:54 Ken H. did opine:

> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Neither have I. I do have a makefile in /opt/nitros9/level1/tano, but
> > its first breakage is its hardcoded to look for rules.mak in
> > /rules.mak. so obviously the makefile will need massaged to locate
> > rules.mak properly.
> > 
> > Since in my copy of the repo, many months old, has rules.mak in
> > /opt/nitros9/rules.mak (this is linux), and this makefile is in
> > /opt/nitros9/level1/tano, start by editing the makefile to look for
> > rules.mak relatively, eg set that string with an editor to
> > "../../rules.mak", without the quotes of course.  Then in this tano
> > directory, do "make dsk",  It will either work, or point you at the
> > next problem with its error.
> 
> Actually, the makefile makes reference to $(NITROS9DIR)/rules.mak
> 
And that is what I get for not looking at it, or checking my env.  Every 
time I get that stuff setup in the right copy of .bashrc, an update over-
writes it and I forget about it.  Since I turned 78 back on the 4th, can I 
plead Oldtimers? :(

> Once I defined NITROS9DIR as an environment variable pointing to the
> nitros9 source dir, I have been able to complete the build without any
> errors.
> I have used "export NITROS9DIR=/opt/nitros9" (I'm building on Mac OSX)
> to define the environment variable.
> Then using make dsk I have been able to build the boot disks (this is
> for 6809 Level 1 Tano).
> 
> Unfortunately, these boot disks won't boot or even display the Nitros9
> boot screen.
> This may be related to the general problem the current nightly build has
> that has been already reported on the list, or a specific problem with
> the Tano Dragon build.
> I guess I should wait for an updated nightly build and continue from
> there. Ken

I've no clue here as I don't have a tano.  Or a dragon.  I would think 
those dsk's are setup to be a floppy only boot.  Can you get a hint of how 
far it gets in the boot before it dies?  One short burst of disk access, a 
slight pause, then a several second burst would tell me it did get the 
boottrack, and the OS9Boot file into memory. After the longer read, it 
should have the bootfile in memory and you should get a 32 column green 
screen about then.

I'm assuming level 1 does not have the marching dots during the OS9Boot 
scan like level 2 does.

Cheers, Gene
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