10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
7:56 a.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
I thought that there was a command called "sys" that copied the track 0
area included in the CP/M
set of programs. cp would operate on track 2 on up.
When using sysgen to create a new bootable CP/M disk, does
sysgen copy the cold start loader, too? I'm trying to do a single-drive
sysgen with CP/M 1.4 and it reports that it has copied the system tracks but
the disk won't cold boot.
CP/M provides no standardized way of reading/writing the system tracks, so the
exact method used varies considerably from implementation to implementation.
It might be done by sysgen, it might be done by format (or whatever the low-
level init program is called - this is also not standardized), or it might be done
by a separate utility.