[Coco] FPGA dsk boot file

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Sat Nov 13 02:40:44 EST 2021


And, by the way, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this or not but there’s an easy way to get CoCo3FPGA to boot directly from the SD card without using drivewire. If you’re interested in that, let me know and I can help you set it up. 

-Dave Philipsen

> On Nov 12, 2021, at 9:26 PM, rcrislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:13:30 -0600
> "Christopher R. Hawks" <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
> 
>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:00:53 -0500
>>> rcrislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, what does the "sd" refer to in some of the boot files for the
>>> 6809 boot images? I'm trying to run what I though used in the pass,
>>> but now I get "failed" after the i2xto*W part othe boot 8-/. Is this
>>> image for the CoCoSDC? TIA.
>>> 
>> 
>> Rich:
>> 
>>    The '*' means an error occured. 'W' is ascii 87. (87 + 128 = 215)
>> Error 215 is 'Bad Pathname'. Occuring after the 'o' (open the console)
>> should mean the name given for the console is not valid. Should be
>> '/Term'.
>> 
>>    More detail would help.
>> 
>>    Good to see you and Brenda at the show!!
>> 
>> 'NOS9_6809_L2_v030300_coco3_cocosdc.dsk' is the 6809 disk image for
>> the SDC.
>> 'bootfile_cocosdc' is the correct bootfile if you build your own
>> disks.
>> 
>> 
>> Christopher R. Hawks
>> HAWKSoft
> 
> Thanks Chris, I am trying to boot my DE-1 FPGA CoCo. So you and Dave
> Phillipsen answered my question. I'm barking up the wrong tree 8-/. I'm
> currently R'ingTFM to see what I can gleam from it.
> 
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