silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (05/08/90)
I've just gotten a Spectre GCR and have run into an exasperating problem
trying to get a partition of my Supra 60 Meg HD to autoboot. It will
autoload OK, but although I have tried several different system/finder
sets, and also used the System 6.0 install procedure, it absolutely
refuses to boot from anything but a floppy. It starts off with a smily
face, but then turns it off and requires the floppy.
There are no other System files on the HD, and I have only one Spectre
partition (16 Meg). I played a bit with the SCSI unit on the startup
menu (in Spectre), but don't know whether I can fix the problem that way.
One thing that may be a factor is that I didn't have an up-to-date
system when I started loading the hard drive, so the System folder was
not the first item on the partition -- is that a factor? I don't want
to go through the hassle of reformatting and starting from scratch
unless it is necessary.
I have version 2.65 of the Spectre software. All the manual says on
this problem is that "If the boot fails... assume the HD is damaged."
Since this is the only problem I have encountered with this HD, is there
a better diagnostic?!
Help greatly appreciated. It is frustrating sitting there with a 19 ms HD
watching the boot floppy spin endlessly every time I try to do anything!
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577
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