[Coco] NitrOS-9, Cobbler and Fragmented Boot Files

[Bill Pierce]

Guys, Robert Gaults "RGBDOS Tools" disk has a basic menu program that boots os9 from drive 255....
This program does exactly what you';re talking about. It changes the LSN0 to point to the boot.
I know there's several here who have modded this program to boot different boots from a menu.
The program is "link.bas" and I think a modded version of it is used for the SuperIDE as well.
The menu program is "autoexec.bas". Just combine the two and have autoexec do what link does when a boot is selected then do "dos xxx" or if they're all on one disk... "dos"
 

Bill Pierce
"Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
 

My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com


 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 9:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9, Cobbler and Fragmented Boot Files


Ya thats true for Bootfile, as long as it was contiguous prior to Nitros9 you 
just had to change LSN0 .  I would be very interested in the MultiBoot you had 
if it is still around.  The best I found so far for editing is Kwikgen/Cobbler. 
Still lacking on flexability between them, still a lot of behind scene steps to 
create Boot Track.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 9, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Nitros9 has support for fragmented Boot, but no decent editor.  Cobbler 
is still in a Level 1 state and hasn’t changed since release.  I use Kwikgen 
myself for the boot file, I only use cobbler for the boot track.
> 
> If I recall, the only thing that made a bootfile special was an entry in LSN0 
pointing to it (and it needing to contain certain modules, not be fragmented, 
etc.).  When we sold MultiBoot, the user could just copy as many os9boot files 
as would fit to the floppy, and you'd run the program to identify which ones 
were bootfiles (I think).
> 
> Then, typing DOS presented a menu of all the boot files, and you'd select the 
one you wanted then hit ENTER and it would link the LSN0 to it, and then do a 
normal DOS boot.
> 
> It seems a utility to do this would be real easy -- basically just merging 
modules? Cobbler recreated what was in memory (current boot), right? It's been 
so long! I think I used EZGen from Burke & Burke or something for all of my 
bootfiles.
> 
> 
> --
> Allen Huffman - PO Box 22031 - Clive IA 50325 - 515-999-0227 (vmail/TXT only)
> Sub-Etha Software - http://www.subethasoftware.com - Established 1990!
> Sent from my MacBook.
> 
> P.S. Since 4/15, I have earned OVER $370  in Amazon gift cards via Swagbucks! 
Use my link and I get credit:
> http://swagbucks.com/refer/allenhuffman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco


-- 
Coco mailing list
Coco at maltedmedia.com
https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco