[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Mark Garlanger]

On 10/18/06, Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net> wrote:
> Doh!
>
> So it was working all along!?
>
> Clearly I have a lot of reading to do.
>

Good to hear that was the problem.

> So it appears that once its figured out the baud rate, the O/S
> patches itself, and does not auto-baud when you re-boot the disk?
>
> After pressing the space bar twice, I got the BOOT text and
> HDOS sign on messages.  When I rebooted that same floppy
> later on (without powering off) it simply booted up automatically.
>
> No need to press the space bar.
>
> Is this normal?
>

Not sure, almost all the disks I used back in the 80s didn't even
require the second 'BOOT' command. The HDOS distribution Disk, I have,
is write-protected, it definitely continues to wait for the spaces.

Mark

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Garlanger" <garlanger at gmail.com>
> To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)
>
>
> > On 10/17/06, Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net> wrote:
> >> Ok, I'm stumped here!
> >>
> >> How do I make a bootable system disk under HDOS?
> >>
> >> I'm able to init and pass media check on a 'blank' floppy.
> >>
> >> But when I SYSGEN/M, and attempt to boot the resulting
> >> diskette, nothing happens.
> >>
> >
> > At this point try pressing the space bar 3-4 times, it's to determine
> > baud rate, there is set commands to not require it, I'm not sure if
> > SYSGEN/M is some how reseting that option, but it's worth a try. I had
> > seen this with some of the disks I had (HDOS distribution disks). I
> > thought the disks had gone bad - I then attempted to mount them, and
> > they worked fine... then I remember about the space bar and that fixed
> > the problem.
> > Mark
> >
> >> Specifically, I reset, press B for 'boot', the drive light goes on
> >> then off again, then nothing happens.  No additional text is
> >> displayed, no drive access sounds, nothing.
> >>
> >> When I try SYSGEN *.* I get a read error on the source
> >> disk and end up back at the HDOS prompt.  The resulting
> >> disk does not boot, it acts exactly like the SYSGEN/M
> >> attempt.
> >>
> >> When I simply try SYSGEN, I end up with an error where
> >> the system is looking for ONBECOPY.ABS, which does
> >> not appear to be on my one and only bootable diskette.
> >>
> >> Would someone here please tell me exactly how I'm supposed
> >> to make a backup boot disk?
> >>
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