[Coco] bootlink progress

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 20 October 2012 13:10:12 L. Curtis Boyle did opine:

> 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.
> :)
> 
I have some drives, up to 6.3 Gb IIRC, I cabbaged all the scsi-2 drives 
with a 50 pin interface from the tv station 2-3 years ago, Quantums IIRC 
but they were all cooked in a poorly cooled server that caused a high drive 
failure rate and was eventually replaced because it was down 30% of the 
time waiting for Quantum to warranty bad drives.  Net result is that I 
haven't yet put a cable on them to see if os9 can format them.  I should 
probably hook them up 1 at a time and clone /dd to them with my b09 version 
of dd.  Maybe thats something I can do this afternoon.  If I can find the 
giddyup.

This mornings work on bootlink is gone, /dd developed a DISK ERROR while 
sitting there spinning overnight.  Touched the reset button and it 
rebooted, disk error gone, but so is about 100 lines of code I had added to 
it this morning. :(  &*^%$# even...

Don't ask about my mood after that till I've had another cuppa, which is 
brewing. :(

> 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.
> 
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