[Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

[Kip Koon]

Hi Guys!
I'd like to get this disk working with my IDE setup, so if someone is working on that I would be grateful for a booting copy once you are finished.  I'm still trying to figure out how to insert modules into the OS9boot file.  
I just learned about Gene's way of splitting up the OS9boot file, adding/removing modules as needed in a subdirectory and putting it back together again.  I want to play with that and see what happens.  It sounds very interesting.
Bill Pierce, I also want to check out your way of altering an OS9boot file as well.  Details of your process would be quite helpful.  Thanks in advance.

Kip Koon
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http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon


-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Nobel
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:23 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

I did know that, I use 80 track in VCC.  I can read and do everything off the disk, but boot stalls on either clock or cc3go when I type DOS.  Tried to remove your scsi drivers and use mine, but so far no workable boot yet.(I don’t give up).

Bill Nobel

> On Nov 23, 2014, at 3:47 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> The OS9L3 disk is 80 track double-sided. it's dmode settings should be:
> 
> TYP=20 DNS=3 CYL=0050 SID=2 SCT=0012 T0S=0012
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> 
> On 24/11/2014 2:32 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>> 
>> Robert, to get Bob's disk to read in Vcc, try this:
>> dmode /d0 typ=20 dns=3 cyl=23 sid=2
>> It's the only way I got it to read the disk
>> 
>> 
>> Bill Pierce
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>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 10:54 am
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?
>> 
>> 
>> Bill Nobel wrote:
>>> Hey Bob, I tried Kwikgen but it barfed on the fact that the boot 
>>> files need
>> the 2 _end modules, one after the SCF modules and one after RBF.  I'm 
>> gonna wait a bit till I get a compilable version that I can truly 
>> play with.  I think the boot files still has some hardware modules 
>> that don’t exist on VCC (i.e. clock and cc3go descriptors).  I know your boot has SCSII drivers already.
>>> 
>>> Bill Nobel
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>> it was a long time ago that I built my L3 OS9Boot file. I suspect 
>>>> that I
>> probably used something like KwikGen to do it. It is capable of 
>> removing and inserting modules without taking apart the whole OS9Boot file.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>>> 
>>> <snip>
>> 
>> One of the ways I mess around with OS9Boot, is to create a directory, 
>> separate all of the modules in OS9boot into that directory, and build 
>> a new OS9Boot as needed. It is easy to point LSN0 to the new OS9Boot.
>> I've a program, Separate, which splits up merged modules. Level3 
>> presents a challenge as there are two _end modules so Separate was 
>> modified to ignore repeats.
>> 
>> Unfortunately I can't get Bob Devries' boot disk to work with any emulator.
>> There must be a special hardware requirement I'm not meeting. The 
>> modules Boot, Init, and CC3Go all look for different disks.
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> 
>> 
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