Re: CP/M 3 Boot from a Compact Flash - problems and need help.

Hi Thomas,

good stuff !!

I will return to this side of the S100 project soon to continue where left off and tidy up the loose ends.

would be interested in your completed image myself, will save me some work :-)

with regards to your flash card issue, you may want to read the first paragraph of the following document that I wrote up when building my ide card.

http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/file/80152496/S100%20IDE%20Version%2002%20board%20build%20v1.doc

regards

David Fry
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:35:13 PM UTC+1, Thomas Owen wrote:

Now that I have my IDE card passing all the preliminary tests, I am trying to install CP/M on the Compact Flash drive and get the system to boot.

System:

Compupro ZPU at 2 mhz.

IDE CF Card, version 2.0a

IMSAI SIO for console

Ram 17 with Eprom installed at ‘E000’

8 gb Kingston CF

Have read, and re-read all the articles I can on the site, and decided to use the method put together by David Fry found here.

http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/IDE%20Board/Z80%20CP_M%203.0%20build.pdf

Step 1 - I modified HLDRBIOS.ASM to support my Console device (IMSAI SIO)

Step 2 - I modified CHARIO3.ASM to support my Console device

Step 3 - Assembled and built the CPMLDR.COM

Step 4 - Copied it to the CF at Sector 0

Step 5 - Assembled and built the CPM3.SYS and copied it to the CF at sector 112

Step 6 - Moved sector 48 to sector 63 on the CF

I know the install is not complete, but at this point I wanted to see what a ‘Boot’ looked like from David’s MYIDEROM:

At boot I see displayed on the console and MYIDEROM reports this drive information:

Cyl: 3C82 Heads: 010 Sectors: 0048

Then I choose ‘C’ for Boot CP/M and here is where I see a problem:

Notice the ‘LBA = 003C003C’. Why is that value so high and incorrect?

Any suggestions to getting is completed?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas