[Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

[Bill Pierce]

Good work Chad, I must have missed the post or I would've told you to do it just that way.

My Coco 3 has an autoboot feature (part of the Eagle keyboard interface) and executes DOS after 10 or 15 secs if you don't hit a key. I have track 34 setup with a "dos" routine that runs a basic program that loads hdbdos from the disk then a menu comes up (RG's RGBDOS menu) and I have it set so after 15 secs of not hitting a key, it does a DOS255 and boots NitrOS9. So I just turn the Coco 3 on and it'll be in Nitros9 in less than a minute, while I'm booting my Coco 1 and VCC.

My Coco 1 has no such feature and I rarely use BASIC so I just made a boot for it the same as you described. It has the floppy boot but defaults to /dd after it starts which is really /x0. There's a copy of the OS9Boot on the VHD as well for "reset" warm starts. It works well for me. I do have another disk set up for hdbdos if I want to work in BASIC and it will boot Nitros9 from drive255. I have the same "dos" program on that disk that starts hdbdos.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2013 7:36 pm
Subject: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*


Ok, someone told me this couldn't be done.  Perhaps they didn't understand
what I was referring to..

 

*	I wanted to be able to turn on my CoCo WITHOUT a DriveWire ROM, type
DOS and it 'BOOTSTRAP' into NitrOS-9 on the DriveWire 4 server.

 

I've managed to create a real Floppy that does just that.  DriveWire ROM not
required!  Essientially it is a DriveWire 4 NitrOS-9 floppy that starts the
bootup sequence from the real disk but somewhere along the way it 'switches'
to the /DD image housed on the DriveWire 4 server and seamlessly continues.
:-)


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