jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) (11/30/87)
My PRO 350 lost its hard disk over the long weekend, and, true to form, I had some stuff on there which hadn't been backed up. (It'd been completely reliable for four years!) The failure appears to be a bad boot block, so chances are the data I want are intact; the problem, of course, is how to get at it when I can't boot. Does anybody have any ideas? I'd like to find some way to boot something from floppies, enough to recover the data I'm interested in, or some way to temporarily run a machine with two hard disks (I have a friend with another machine, with which I can play mix-n-match hardware pieces). Finally, does anyone remember the name of the magic file you're supposed to put in [ZZSYS] that autoboots into an application? I think it's FIRSTAPPL.PTR or something like that, but as I recall you have to get it exactly right, and, of course, it's not obviously documented. Thanks in advance for any information.
mgb@macs.UUCP (Michael Branton) (02/16/88)
Because our site was down for the past two weeks, I've missed out on the recent postings to this list. Would someone who archives them be willing to send me what has gone out since 27 January ? -- -mgb ...ihnp4!codas!ki4pv!macs!mgb : UUCP