parker@vlsic2.vlsic2.ti.com (James Parker) (12/23/89)
I earlier posted a message asking about problems I was having with the ICDBOOT.PRG and trying to disable the autoboot from the hard-drive. Thanks to everyone who replied and with their help and some luck of my own, I have managed to solve it sort 0f... With my ST (1040 with TOS 1.4), the following sequence would allow the ST to boot completely from the floppy disk, ie. not using the AUTO folder of the hard drive boot partition. DO a cold boot, and wait for the Floppy drive light to come on and then go off again. Now press and hold down Ctrl/Alt/Shift until the hard drive light flashes on an goes off. Now release the keys and the computer will continue to boot reading the floppy. One more thing to note. If you have ICDBOOT.PRG in the AUTO folder of your floppy, it will be read no problem, but the computer then goes to hard drive and installs whatever accessories are there for a hard-drive boot. If you want to come up with the accessory arrangement on your floppy, the easiest thing is to remove ICDBOOT.PRG from your floppy AUTO folder and run in manually after you have booted. You can then access your hard drive no problem. I'm sure there are more elegant fixes than this, but... I also had several people say just get SUPERBOOT or G+PLUS, etc., and forget about it. Probably good advice. Anyway, there is the summary of what I discovered. Thanx again, james parker