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

[Brett Gordon]

Darren,

If you're not concerned with traditional OS9 Booting, you could try
out my CoCoBoot2 project.   It'll boot OS9BOOT without concern over
fragmentation.   It does require the latest Nitros9.  One can also
have several OS9BOOT files on your filesystem, and select one of them
at boot. It however, will not make your OS9BOOT for you :(

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't NitrOS-9 modified to work with a fragmented boot file?
>
> I'm currently working on a new driver for the CoCo SDC. After building a
> new DSK image I usually opt to change the screen width to 40 columns by
> entering:
>
> xmode /term col=28 sty=1
> cobbler /dd
>
> On recent builds (as the driver code has grown in size) Cobbler now fails,
> reporting that the boot file is fragmented. This renders the disk
> un-bootable and I have to move a fresh copy of the DSK image onto the SD
> card. I can avoid the problem by using dmode to set sas=80 before running
> cobbler, but can't reduce sas later without getting a fragmented file again.
>
> If NitrOS-9 has solved the fragmented boot limitation, shouldn't Cobbler be
> changed so that it doesn't abort in that situation? Is there something else
> I should be using instead of Cobbler?
>
> Darren
>
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Brett M. Gordon,
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