[Coco] Intro and need some help (Was: Re: (no subject))

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sat Mar 9 09:11:27 EST 2013


> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>> And, the big question is why do they work from the floppy and not
>> from the hard disk?  Surely the system can't tell where they are
>> coming from.
>>
>
> Bill, the answer to your question is simple. Look at the ident results for
> the
> modules you posted. They may have had different names in the RBF directory
> but
> all three were the same module, I0, with identical CRCs. Now that is
> obviously
> wrong and when you built a custom bootfile with a script, you did not get
> the
> descriptors you expected.
> On the other hand, the floppy already had an OS9Boot file with the correct
> descriptors. That was independent of whether the modules in the RBF
> directory
> were correct.

Yeah. I figured that one out inmy sleep last night.  :-)

>
> You can either build your own I1 and Ih descriptors from the source code
> or I
> could send you the correct descriptors. In fact I'll do that and send them
> to
> your college address.

Got em.  That's on the agenda for today. Thanks.

bill

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