EESD11O@CALSTATE.BITNET (Ed Krimen) (12/13/89)
I'm going "to kill two birds with one stone" here. First the ICDBOOT problem: James Parker writes: > According to the manual, if I depress Ctrl/Shift/Alt while booting, the > computer will boot from the floppy instead of autobooting from the > hard-drive. I have a copy of ICDBOOT.prg in A:\AUTO folder but not in > C:\AUTO as instructed in the docs. > > Well....no luck. > I have tried all combinations of softboot/hardboot, wait till the > floppy lite comes on and goes off, and so on as recommended in the > ICD docs that I got with the kit...and all I get is the default > ROM desktop. It doesn't autoboot from the hard-drive, but it doesn't > read the floppy either, it just comes up with the ROM 2-icon desktop. > > The whole point was so I could boot from floppy on those rare occasions > when I wanted to use a GDOS application. I have a stock 1040ST with > TOS 1.4. Can anyone shed any light on this situation? If I understand what you're saying, you have the hard drive normally autoboot (with ICDBOOT.SYS in C:\), but on occasion, you want to boot stuff from the floppy as well and still have it boot the hard drive. I suggest you put ICDBOOT.PRG near the last file of the A:\AUTO folder. To do that, take everything out of it, and copy everything back, making sure that ICDBOOT.PRG is copied last, unless you have STARTGEM or something like that. (Or you could use something like AUTOSORT or CFJ's AUTO folder sorting utility to rearrange the files in AUTO.) When the hard drive boots, hold down the CTRL/SHIFT/ALT keys. Right after you see the hard drive's light flicker and turn off, let go. This will let the files in A:\AUTO boot and then ICDBOOT.PRG will load after the rest of the files. Although what would be easier is to put GDOS in C:\AUTO and get something like SUPER BOOT or DESK MANAGER to deselect GDOS when you don't want it to load. ccccccccccccccc Next: Where's Bolo? Richard Wilson writes: > Is bolo available anywhere? I can't find it at terminator or panarthea. > It exists on my local BBS, but I can't get it to run. It just bombs. > I tried it with no ramdisk or DA's. I have a 1meg mono 1040. Any > suggestions? Thanks. I have the single-sided disk version (the one without music) on my BBS (916-894-1261: Northern California). BRE Software (1-800-347-6760) has the double-sided version for $4.00.