[Coco] bootlink progress

[L. Curtis Boyle]

This sounds similar (except using virtual disk images) to the BUTIL that Bruce Isted did for the Frank Hogg Eliminator way back. You could change boot tracks using that utility, to change which boot your were going to use, and set up as many as you had room for (I kinda borrowed that idea on the last version of the IDE driver that I did for Glenside, when I allowed "offset partitions" to make multiple (up to) 4 GB virtual hard drives on a larger physical drive (I tested on a 20 GB). I have no idea if that code is still in the NitrOS9 tree or not. :)


On Oct 20, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 20 October 2012 09:56:31 Bill Pierce did opine:
> 
>> Gene,
>> that sounds good. Between Drivewire, SuperIDE, SC^2, Becker, HDBDOS, &
>> RGBDOS, there's a lot of different ways to boot. Sounds like you're
>> making it possible to boot from either on a reboot. Am I right? If you
>> get it to work, why not give it a UI that lists ... say, any file in
>> the root with the name "os9boot" i.e. "os9boot.dw4", "os9boot.sid",
>> "os9boot.hdb"... etc. and be able to set the boot to use?
>> 
>> Bill P
> 
> That could be done too I suppose, but my original idea wasn't to play with 
> that, but to do effectively the same thing by just swapping out the DD.BT 
> and DD.SIZ in LSN0 to point at the OS9Boot installed on vdisk xxx.  I doubt 
> seriously if any of us would use more than 5 of them that way.
> 
> Furinstance, and I haven't generated that floppy yet, I need a boot that is 
> sufficient stripped that I can run the std mb script that does use format.
> 
> There are more ways to do this than there are to vote Nov 6th. :)  
> Fortunately, we managed to get the libertarian candidates on the ballot, 
> here in WV, but we haven't managed to get the most needed ballot choice, 
> none-of-the-above.