[Coco] Help with Nitros9 on SDC?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Going back to your earlier message reporting the error from 6.0.1:
Would you be able to email me a screen shot of the FAILED screen that you are getting? From the snippet that you mentioned, it looks a module name in the INIT module is not being found in the OS9Boot file itself… and the only way that should happen is if the OS9Boot file (or the INIT module within it) has been modified from the 6.0.1 distribution.

(You can see a summary of how the boot process works, and what the error code on the bootscreen means, here:
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS9_Boot_process_explained.txt <http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS9_Boot_process_explained.txt>
An error is when it prints the ‘*’ symbol, and the character immediately after that you can look up on the table in the above site to see what it means. In your case:
The ‘i’ means that the INIT module was found
The ’t’ means that the F$Boot system call has been installed.
The ‘*j’ indicates ERROR #234 ‘Non-existant module’, which I am gathering to mean that the INIT module is trying to get NitrOS-9 to initialize a default device (could be a window name, drive, etc.), but the one it is looking for does not exist in the OS9Boot file itself.)


L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Apr 11, 2021, at 8:03 AM, Don Barber <don at dgb3.net> wrote:
>> Due to my frustrations with stock NOS9 and the SDC, I thought I'd try to use EOU to see if it played better with the SDC. So I downloaded EOU beta 6.0.1...and get a fail on boot. I'm using the 68SDC.VHD image. It loops through the modules and after ...'Clock Clock2 it*j' it stops and says 'FAILED'. I am running in a 512K coco3 with 6809. Thoughts?
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