ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (12/02/88)
In article <8811151642.AA29117@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RUBIN@GRAF.POLY.EDU (David Rubin) writes: ... >of my programs. So I removed TURBODOS from the AUTO folder. The only >remaining program in AUTO is FOLDR100.PRG. > >Now, after the system boots and shows the "100 Extra folders..." message, >the system reboots itself, sometimes several times, before the desktop >appears. > >Does anyone know what causes this, and what could fix it? Thanks... I have an ST without a hard disk, and do not usually run FOLDR100, but I sometimes experience the system reboot ``feature''. I wonder if David Rubin's problem is not one with FOLDR100, but something about the operating system itself. I can not reproduce this behavior at will, and from what he says, it sounds like David's problem is not reproducible either. Has anyone experienced this problem and solved it? Perhaps someone from Atari can comment on known causes of "automatic reboot". -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) (12/03/88)
In article <1959@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes: >In article <8811151642.AA29117@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RUBIN@GRAF.POLY.EDU (David Rubin) writes: >... >>of my programs. So I removed TURBODOS from the AUTO folder. The only >>remaining program in AUTO is FOLDR100.PRG. >> >>Now, after the system boots and shows the "100 Extra folders..." message, >>the system reboots itself, sometimes several times, before the desktop >>appears. >> >>Does anyone know what causes this, and what could fix it? Thanks... > >Has anyone experienced this problem and solved it? i have had similar problems from time to time on my 1040, and each time it was due to a screwed up desktop.inf file. the problems occurred when i was developping megaboot.prg, which would check the resolution you were booting in and load an appropriate desktop.inf file depending on the resolution. if the desktop.inf file was corrupted in any way, the st would hang, then billions and billions of bombs would appear, etc. so, check your .inf file to see if its buggered in any way. (maybe remove the desktop.inf file and see if you can boot up easily) i -- Ignac A. Kolenko "Squeeze my lemon, let the juice run watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac down my leg!" - Led Zep (Lemon Song) "The main energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree, so don't give me too many bumps!" - Scotty (ST:TWOK)