Re: [colorforth] Booting from HDD

[Nick Maroudas <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  On   Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:36:25 +0200   Nick Maroudas
wrote
  Subject:   Re: [colorforth] Booting from HDD

Dear Jason,
 
.... I
 have the same experience with 3.3 GHz PD on Intel945
 board. None of the following booted properly - not
 John's CD of CFDOS4, nor floppies with Chuck's CF01,
 nor the Neitz/StMarie CF01, nor Josh's CF05 and a
 related CF05 from Ray - though every one of these ran
 reliably on my 0.55 GHz P4/ASUS P2. However (to my
 relief!) Howerd Oakford's CFDOS4 (from Howerd's
 website)
 http://www.inventio.co.uk/
 runs on both the old and the new machine. 
 
Nick here:  For the record, Josh Grams's "color16"
version 
            of CF05 now runs, though not yet with video.
 
The trick was to prepare the boot floppy on the same new
machine 
that it intends to boot.  And to prove that it is
working, even 
though the screen is blank, I combined Josh's color16
with 
Howerd's music block, modified to run on the faster
machine 
as previously explained: 

Date:   Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:58:47 +0200
  From:   Nick Maroudas <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To:   colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject:   Re: [colorforth] Hello - and where to
begin? 

A bootable CF05 image with music was prepared and tested
on the 
old machine, but the floppy from the old machine would
not boot 
the new machine.  So I deedeed this floppy onto a USB
thumbdrive,
still on the old machine: 

    dd if=/dev/fd0  of=cf05music.blk 

The thumbdrive was transferred to the new machine, and a
new 
boot floppy was prepared: 

    dd if=cf05music.blk of=/dev/fd0 

This new floppy booted its parent machine, and proved
that  
it worked by playing Howerd's setting of Handel's
gavotte, 
though with a blank screen. 

(Next step, add VBE call 4f01 to locate the modern video
frame 
buffer).  

NickM

*****

How many floppies to boot this PC?  One AND the same one
that was 
written by this PC.   

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