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BOOT Version 2.4
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Comments to:- John Bromhead
Rainbow Country Support
Basingstoke,England
Tel: 44-256-59200
DECNET: PERCH::BROMHEAD
Index to this document
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1)What is it?
2)What is supported
3)How to install
4)Modes of operation
5)Error messages
6)Help Screen
7)Ideas for use
1)What is it?
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This program allow users in CPM or MSDOS to BOOT another
partition on their winchester without going through the
SETUP/CONTROL/SETUP followed by the TESTING process.
The main reason for its design was to allow Personal Computer
Support people at our Customer Support Centers to quickly
respond to calls.
But it can also be used by PC100A owners to get the wini boot
menu .This was not possible before since they did not have the
W option in the power up menu.
2)What is supported
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Version 2.4 - Supports
PC100A Rom Version 04.03.11
PC100B/+ Rom Version 05.03
The PC100A/PC100B/+ variants are automatically detected.
The recent rom changes for MASS 11 are not yet supported.
If other than the supported Roms are detected the screen
is cleared and the HELP menu displayed with the message
Sorry,Incorrect Rom Version
displayed in double height,flashing characters at the top
of the screen.You are then returned to the operating system
normally.
CPM 86/80 Version 2.0 and MSDOS Version 2.05 and 2.11 have
been successfully tested.
Concurrent CPM can be booted from CPM or MSDOS but no BOOT
program has been developed to go the other way.
3)How to install
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This disk contains two BOOT programs:-
BOOT.CMD - for CPM with this disk in drive A:
- just PIP E:=A:BOOT.CMD[rov]
- to get it onto your hard disk partition
BOOT.EXE - for MSDOS with this disk in drive A:
- just DOSFLX WRITE A:BOOT.EXE E:BOOT.EXE
This disk can also be used on a PC100A to get the PC100B style boot menu.
1) Copy this disk with FCV or COPY
2) Run AUTO and patch disk to run BOOT program
To make an AUTOBOOTING floppy.
1) Copy this disk with FCV or COPY
2) Run AUTO but patch this disk with the command BOOT 1
( this replaces the need to use SETHARD program and can be used
to boot CPM,Concurrent CPM or MSDOS)
4)Modes of operation
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The BOOT program has two modes of operation:
1)Menu based - just type BOOT
2)Command line based - type BOOT 2 to boot partition 2
(note typing BOOT 3 on a disk with only
2 partitions will put you in menu mode
for you to choose)
WARNING - Running BOOT takes you past the point of no return
i.e. if you have MDRIVE installed all data from it
will be lost.
5)Error messages
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The following error messages may be seen on the bottom line of the screen.
They can indicate that a particular Winchester has never been formatted or
partitoned or that a partition is not bootable.
For CPM: use the LDCOPY command on the System master diskette
i.e. LDCOPY A: E:
For MSDOS: use the FORMAT e: /S option when first installing
MSDOS or use the SYS command to add MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS
don't forget to COPY COMMAND.COM onto the wini as well.
If problems still occur you may have a faulty wini/or controller - run
you hard disk diagnostics.
After detecting an error the only retry mechanism is that the program
is re-run.
*** ERROR 0 - SHOULD NOT GET THIS ***
- used to detect a programming error
as it says you should never get this
*** ERROR 1 - NO HOM BLOCK HEADER ***
*** ERROR 2 - DPD LENGTH 0 ***
*** ERROR 3 - OSN LENGTH 0 ***
*** ERROR 4 - NO DPB BLOCK ***
*** ERROR 5 - ZERO PARTITIONS ***
*** ERROR 6 - NO OSN BLOCK HEADER ***
- any of errors 1-6 indicate that the disk was
probably disk never partitioned
*** ERROR 7 - FIRST BYTE NOT JMP ***
- this indicates that the loader tracks where read
O.K. but that the first instruction was not the
expected JUMP code - disk partition has probably
not been LDCOPY'ed.
*** ERROR 8 - NO READ COMMAND INT ***
*** ERROR 9 - READ SECTOR ERROR ***
- errors 8-9 are most likely hardware errors
- run wini dignostics to confirm
*** ERROR 10 - CHECKSUM ERROR ***
- hardware error or disk never partitioned
run wini diagnostics to confirm
6)Help Screen
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The following is the copy of the help screen from the MSDOS version:-
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MSDOS BOOT Version 2.4 29 Jan 1985
Copyright Digital Equipment Company 1985
BOOT by itself will give a menu but it can also accept command line
arguments i.e. BOOT 2 will boot from partition 2 with no menu.
Only the following Rom versions are supported:-
PC100A Rom Version 04.03.11
PC100B/+ Rom Version 05.03
Comments to:- John Bromhead
Rainbow Country Support
Basingstoke,England
Tel: 44-256-59200
DECNET: PERCH::BROMHEAD
Press any key to return to the Main Menu
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7)Ideas for use
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1) Running a program from another operating system then returning to
where you started.
- Assume the CPM partition is AUTO'ed to run SUBMIT START on BOOT
and as standard MSDOS runs the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
- Include as the last command in the MSDOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file
the command
START
- From CPM make up a file called START.BAT
In it put the MSDOS commands you want i.e.
LOTUS rem:the program you want to run
BOOT 1 rem:so you can get back to CPM
- On CPM create a submit file Called LOTUS.SUB
which contains the following
DOSFLX WRITE E:START.BAT E:START.BAT
ERA START.SUB
BOOT 2
DOSFLX DEL E:START.SUB
(this last item will work since the $$$.SUB file is left on
the CPM side of the disk and is executed when we reboot CPM)
Thus if from CPM you SUBMIT LOTUS - you will run LOTUS and
return to CPM.