Hi at all, I'm sorry I'm not very prepared and my English is basic.
I have a mainboard with CPU Z80 derived from the famous Ferguson Big Board 1
(that i have working fine). It has a CPU Z80A running at 4MHz, 64KByte DRAM,
FDC 1797 with external data separator FDC9228BT. It equipped with its own
BIOS that is loaded into memory at address F800H but it not has the
operating system CP/M.
If instead of his eprom i insert the firmware coming from Ferguson Bigboard
1 (which is loaded into memory at address F000H) that has FDC 1771 it run
properly loading the operating system CP/M 2.2. I looked in my experience
and modified the CP/M loader and CBIOS to point at the entry points of the
bios at F800H, so the loader loads into memory correctly ALL the CCP, the
BDOS and CBIOS, but it not complete the boot CP/M with the prompt (the error
that comes to me is: track 2 sector 1 not found. it is an area where
normally there is no CP/M code and that it is regularly read with a simple
read command available from the firmware).
I ASK FOR: Anybody has any idea? Is there a Z80 emulator where I can load
the BIOS and i can try to load the operating system CP/M to see what type of
problem?
Regards
Enri