[Coco] DW3DOS ROM not loading NitrOS9 correctly

[Chad H]

The one I tried was "dw3dos_dsk_cc2.rom" from the archive on the Cloud 9
site.  When booting that in EPROM, it does access the DriveWire server and
reads a bunch of sectors and displays "NITROS9 BOOT" on the screen.  If I
take the server offline before booting the ROM, it very quickly goes to
"BOOT FAILED" on the screen.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Gault
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 10:06 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DW3DOS ROM not loading NitrOS9 correctly

Chad H wrote:
> OK, another thing this guy wants to be able to do with the CoCo1 is 
> AutoBOOT into NitrOS9 under DriveWire.  I thought that's what the 
> DW3DOS file was for.  I tested this by flashing the CoCo 2 verson for 
> my CoCo 2 and booting it.  It does come up with "BOOTING NITROS9" and 
> I do see the read activity for a few seconds in the DriveWire server, 
> but then the screen goes blank with a cursor in the top left of the 
> screen and it just sits there doing nothing..  What happened?
>

Chad,

You seem to be working under some major misunderstandings. If you want
NitrOS-9 to auto-boot there are two ways to do that. 1) Use an abbreviated
Disk ROM that just boots NitrOS-9. 2) Use DW3DOS, HDBDOS, or RGBDOS
(depending on your Coco
system) to access automatically a disk file called AUTOEX.BAS. The disk file
will run automatically and can include a line DOS# where # is a drive number
having a mounted boot disk for NitrOS-9.

Now since you mentioned the Drivewire server, I expect you want to boot
NitrOS-9 from the server. Therefore you must mount in a drive in that server
(it should be #0 for simplicity) a NitrOS-9 boot disk. If you are using the
"nightly" 
builds, you want ex. nos96809l1v030209coco2_dw.dsk mounted.
Note that for a coco2 the disk must be 6809L1 and say coco2_dw. For a coco1
the image should say coco1_dw.

Without knowing which disk image you mounted, and whether you have the
correct settings in the DW server, there is no way anyone can tell what went
wrong for you. You should also post all commands you used. In short, you
must provide enough information for someone to be able to repeat exactly
what you did.

Also, the ROM image currently seems to be called hdbdw3cc2.rom. Where did
you get DW3DOS?

Robert



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