[comp.sys.cbm] GEOS and non-Commodore disks

hackeron@athena.mit.edu (Harris L Gilliam) (04/04/89)

Hi there,

	A while back I posted a request for help pertaining to making a 
bootable copy of GEOS that loaded on non-Commodore disk drives.  I have
a MSD SD-2 dual drive and the load routines GEOS used didn't agree with my
drive and after I sold my 1541 to get the drive I realized I couldn't boot
GEOS anymore.  As you could imagine, this was VERY anoying. But I heard about
a program in shareware that allows you to create a GEOS boot disk that loads
on all drives, so I bugged my friend to do this for me (I couldn't do it myself
becasue you had to run the program from GEOS !!!).  I now have a version of
GEOS that loads just fine but when GEOS asks for a disk with the desktop
it won't recognize my drive, or my drive is ignoring GEOS or something like
that.  Has anyone else had any experiences like this ?  Does anyone know how
to fix this ?  Is there a way to fix this or do I have to shell out dough for
a 1541 or some other Commodore drive to run GEOS ?

I'd appreciate any help in this matter, ALOT !!




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