#: 20347 S5/OS9 Users Group
    11-Sep-94  08:50:53
Sb: #20344-#OS/9 won't work - HELP!
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Jean Gagnon 72164,2020 (X)

Jean,

Are you trying to use the original boot disk or a custom one? If its the
original, what version is printed on the disk label? You might want to take a
look through what came with the machine and see if there are any custom boot
disks.  Some of the OS9 games came on a bootable disk, you can check the
instructions and see, maybe try one of those if there is one.

Its possible that the CoCo was modified in some way that requires a special
boot disk.  What do you know about the machine configuration? Does it have
512K? Has it ever been modified? Is there a multi-pak interface involved? If
so, some cartridges are slot dependent (dependent on how the boot disk was set
up) so that could cause a problem like this.  One of the sticky problems with
any OS, is that you can't look at a boot disk to see what's wrong when you
can't boot the machine!

-Bill-

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