The-Tree@cup.portal.com (Paul The-Tree Baum) (03/26/89)
My brother recently purchased a Tandy 1000 SL. It will not boot up self-booting disks, it just goes to Deskmate. The RS sales person wasn't able to help. Can anyone else? Thanks in advance. The-Tree @cup.Portal (Paul Baum)
dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) (03/27/89)
In article <16225@cup.portal.com> The-Tree@cup.portal.com (Paul The-Tree Baum) writes: >My brother recently purchased a Tandy 1000 SL. It will not boot >up self-booting disks, it just goes to Deskmate. The RS sales >person wasn't able to help. Can anyone else? Thanks in advance. >The-Tree @cup.Portal (Paul Baum) On the MS-DOS (or the supplemental disk) there is a program called setupsl. It allows you to reconfigure the SL to boot from a drive instead of ROM or to boot MS-DOS instead of Deskmate (among other things). -Dan M.
root@gsy1.UUCP (Scott Yates N4BBB) (03/28/89)
In article <16225@cup.portal.com>, The-Tree@cup.portal.com (Paul The-Tree Baum) writes: > My brother recently purchased a Tandy 1000 SL. It will not boot > up self-booting disks, it just goes to Deskmate. The RS sales > person wasn't able to help. Can anyone else? Thanks in advance. > The-Tree @cup.Portal (Paul Baum) Just run the SetupSL program on the MS dos disk. This allows you to select the boot device (rom or disk,) where to find autoexec and config files, etc. For more extensive option controls, try setupsl /a for MANY screen of stored parameters, and setupsl /f restores all factory params, just as does f10 while in setup. Hope this helps -- Scott Yates, N4BBB o o DOMAIN: gsy@gsy1.UUCP || gsy@raider.UUCP Yates Pest Control \ / UUCP: ...!{ames,rutgers}!killer!mjbtn!gsy1!gsy Rockvale, Tennessee (OO) FIDO: Scott Yates at Net/Node 1:116/12 / 1:116/9 "Bugs are my Life!" <> VOICE: (615) 274-2156 / (615) 459-2636
bevans@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Brian Evans) (04/01/89)
In article <16225@cup.portal.com> The-Tree@cup.portal.com (Paul The-Tree Baum) writes: >My brother recently purchased a Tandy 1000 SL. It will not boot >up self-booting disks, it just goes to Deskmate. The RS sales >person wasn't able to help. Can anyone else? Thanks in advance. >The-Tree @cup.Portal (Paul Baum) I have a TX so this may not apply to the SL: On your DOS disks, you should have a program called SETUPTL.COM. If you run this program (either by activating it from DeskMate or from quitting DeskMate and running it from DOS) you will have a menu of what the computer needs to do when it starts up. i.e. start from ROM or disk, run DeskMate or DOS, where is drive A located (if you have more than one floppy drive), etc. Make the appropriate corrections (in this case, changing the start-time application from ROM to disk and to tell it not to run DeskMate), save to the EEPROMS and reboot. Everything should work fine. -- Brian Evans "In any formula, constants (especially bevans@hmcvax.bitnet those obtained from engineering bevans@jarthur.claremont.edu textbooks) are to be treated as or !uunet!jarthur!bevans variables."
The-Tree@cup.portal.com (Paul The-Tree Baum) (04/02/89)
Thanks to all for the help. It is indeed the setup program that he needed to run. At this point, tho, I should kick his butt for not thoroughly reading the manual.:-) Thanks again. The-Tree (Paul Baum) @cup.portal