sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) (07/03/90)
First of all, before I get yelled at, I have heard of how this is SUPPOSED to be done (reboot holding the two mouse buttons down, get the booting options screen, choose 1.3, etc.), but I tried this and had some difficulty figuring out exactly what it is I am supposed to do. When I boot this way, I get a screen with 3 strips of information at the top. The left most "button" on each strip is for enabling or disabling a particular feature. The first strip has something to do with using the floppy drive (I think this is correct, but I am going on memory now). The second strip refers to WB 2.X (for enabling/disabing it) and I do not recall what the third strip states. Well, the only thing I was able to do was to disable WB 2.X and enable booting FROM THE FLOPPY!! This works great, but I if I understood things correctly, I am NOT supposed to have to boot 1.3 from the floppy. It is on the HD (or is it RAM, since I recall hearing something about this being the reason for losing 512K of my RAM). I could NOT affect the bottom strip (the one for which I cannot recall the name). Could someone PLEASE email to me the EXACT step-by-step procedure for booting from the 1.3.2 OS on the A3000? Please be as exact as possible as to what I will see on the screen and what steps I take. Thanks. Scott Sutherland sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu
joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) (07/04/90)
In article <1067@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes: > > First of all, before I get yelled at, I have heard of how this >is SUPPOSED to be done (reboot holding the two mouse buttons down, get >the booting options screen, choose 1.3, etc.), but I tried this and >had some difficulty figuring out exactly what it is I am supposed >to do. When I boot this way, I get a screen with 3 strips of >information at the top. The left most "button" on each strip is >for enabling or disabling a particular feature. The first strip >has something to do with using the floppy drive (I think this >is correct, but I am going on memory now). The second strip refers >to WB 2.X (for enabling/disabing it) and I do not recall what the >third strip states. Booting between 2.0 and 1.3 requires that you start from a power off condition. Power down, wait 15-30 seconds to allow RAM dissipation, then power on and hold down the 2 mouse buttons until you are presented with the boot menu screen. The screen you _did_ see is the warm boot menu which allows you to enable/disable bootable devices connected to your system (temporarily). -- ========================================================================== Joe O'Hara || Disclaimer: I didn't say that! Commodore Electronics Ltd || Product Assurance || "I never lie when I have sand in my shoes." Systems Evaluation Group || - Geordi LeForge, Star Trek TNG ==========================================================================