[Coco] NitrOS9 Boot Help

[Joe Grubbs]

What happens when you mount the DSK image in Drive 0 and type "DOS" at the OK prompt?


> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:39:40 -0400
> From: vincent at webmasterofmydomain.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco]  NitrOS9 Boot Help
> 
> Greetings all -- After trying to Google help on booting NitrOS9 on my Coco3
> and coming up with nothing that has worked for me, I am hoping someone can
> point me in the right direction.  I've been trying to boot NitrOS9 for the
> longest time and can't seem to get it going.
> 
> My setup:
> * Coco 3 with serial to USB cable to my PC
> * HBD-DOS v1.4 DW3 cartridge
> * Drivewire 3 & 4.  (I've tried both)
> 
> I mount the NitrOS9 disk image to drive0 in Drivewire and type "DIR" on the
> Coco and all I get is an "OK" back.  When I do a "DIR", I get "DRIVE=0
> FREE=63"  (blank floppy?).
> 
> Here are the NitrOS9 files:
> 
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1_50hz.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_2.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280 nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280 nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d_50hz.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino_headless.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker_headless.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM         4,718,592 nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           632,064 nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk
> 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw_headless.dsk
> 
> I've also tried the nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk with the CocoSDC and
> all I get when EXEC is a scrambled screen.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> -Vincent
> 
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