18 Feb
1998
18 Feb
'98
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence Walker wrote:
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On 18 Feb 98 at 12:40, Cord Coslor wrote:
As I've now learned .
Hah!! See, I wasn't 'completely' insane!!! :-)
CORD
Charles A. Davis wrote:
> Cord Coslor wrote:
> >
> > Wow, I actually got my name specifically mentioned in a question
> > post.... yipppeeee! Anyway, Larry there could be several things you
> > could try. First, your DOS disk may not be readable anymore... that
> > often happens these days on those classics. Second, alignment of the
> > boot disk drive may be out. Have you been able to get 'anything' to
come
> > up on the screen? Any errors or anything.
> >
There were several trsdos boot disks that I tried. Versions 2.0 A and
4.2 and copies as well as CP/M 2.2. The error message was "boot
error ht " OK, I hit the escape key ,I get the message "insert
diskette " I insert a disk , the activity lite goes on ( the driver
cone is always spinning ) and the message doesn't change. The
activity lite stays on unless I hit the reset and it reverts to the
first message after a short while. It's beginning to sound like it's
an allignment problem to me.
>> Give me another reply, and let me know in
more detail what you
have
> > going on. If nothing else, I can get
you a known good 8" floppy boot
> > diskf or the little bigger, and we'll give that a try.
> >
> > Good luck, and get back to me,
> >
> > CORD COSLOR
> >
> > Lawrence Walker wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > > When I boot up with or without an OS disk I get a "boot error
ht'
> > > msg. The dd spins up and sounds like its loading. Could it have been
> > > set up to boot off one of the hard drives ? I'm really a novice with
> > > TRS-80s but have Coco 1 and 2 in my collection and a Scriptsit cart.
> > > Is there something I'm not doing ?
> > >
Hi Larry
& Cord:
When first reading Larry's question, there wwas something in the back of
my mind about "If the thing was supposed to boot from the hard disk --
you needed to hold down the CTRL (or maybe ALT) key to get it to read
from the floppy?
This stuff of 'automaticly' checking the floppy drive, iss 'new fangled
software stuff'.
Not necessarily true... but I do understand what
you're saying. I guess when I
wrote the reply, I didn't remember he had a hard drive running.
CORD
No, I didn't hook up the HDD s . There were 3 of them and no visible
numbering as to order of placement. I'll have to get under the hood
and see what I can see, and/or try the external floppy DD. I'll let
you know > Chuck
>
Thanks, larry
As well as the CP/M it also has an Exenix Install set.
Likely installed on one of the 5meg HDDs
L.
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