[Coco] [COCO] Putting NitrOS-9 boot track in ROM

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Feb 3 14:33:04 EST 2015


> On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:21 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There are some limitations I have found putting the boot track in the ROM
> though.
> If you use the boot track that is ment for 6809 and you try to use OS9Boot
> that is designed for 6309 it will not work.  So you have to put the boot
> track for your correct CPU setup into ROM.  So if you use 6309 you will
> need the 6309 boot track.

That is a specific limitation we had with our MultiBoot, too. You have the space, so you could have multiple kernel tracks in the ROM, and a menu at the front to choose which one :)

1. 6809 SCSI
2. 6309 SCSI
3. ...etc...

:)


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