[Coco] NitrOS-9 boot from floppy issue

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 17:51:25 EDT 2013


do you see the dd descriptor being loaded? do you have sysgo on the floppy as well a CMDS directory with shell inside?

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On 2013-06-25, at 5:38 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure it is a DSDD drive and it formats without issue using format /d0 2 '40' "Boot disk".
> 
> It will boot all the way to the i2xoC so my guess is it is either getting stuck loading sysgo.  I'll keep playing with it.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> On Jun 25, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> 
>> Phillip,
>> 
>> Is the target drive a DSDD drive?
>> 
>> If SSDD then you will have to modify the scripts, as the boot probably won't fit.
>> 
>> HDB-DOS boot script will work, as it wants a SSDD 35T drive.
>> 
>> Easier to get a DSDD drive, IMHO.....
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Mark
>> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> 
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