jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (10/03/90)
I have an internal 40Mb disk with MacOS on a MacII. I also have an external 300Mb drive, which has A/UX 2.0 installed on it. The "Mac Partition" is on the external drive, although the internal drive has a System folder on it as well (this is a dual-user machine -- mostly, MacOS is being run off the internal drive ... when I want to run A/UX, I start it up manually). Now for the questions: I am unable to get my external hard disk to be the startup disk. Thus, I have the internal disk as the startup disk, along with a System Folder. I have to have a System Folder on the external Mac Partition as well. Is this right? I was told that only one mac partition would be mounted. When I boot A/UX, I get /, my "Mac Partition", and the internal MacOS disk mounted. Was this really meant to say "only one Mac partition *per disk* would be mounted"? Sometimes my "Mac Partition" gets mounted twice. Why? What's the best way to launch A/UX in my situation? I tried to just double-click the A/UX Launch application, but it said I didn't have enough memory. So, I command-option double-click'ed the copy of Multifinder on my "Mac Partition" to make it the startup disk, and then it would launch. Is this the right thing to do? /jordan ps: No one answered my question about how to get my hard disk back after the partition table got scrambled. Here's what I did: it seemed that the machine would bomb when it tried to mount the bad partition upon MacOS boot. I disconnected the external drive from the SCSI chain and restarted with the keys down for rebuilding the desktop (to remove any references to the external disk on the desktop -- I think this was the reason the disk wanted to get mounted in the first place). Then I removed the Silver Lining Init from my System Folder. That way, no disks were looked for. Then I had to reconnect the external disk to the SCSI chain but leave the drive powered down. I then booted the machine and waited until it hung (the SCSI bus hangs in this situation). Then I powered up the external drive, and the machine booted as usual with no reference to the external drive. Then I ran Silver Lining to re-partition the disk. It actually tried hard to recover the partitions, but it was unsuccessful, so I had to re-initialize. While I was at it, I re-formatted to start from scratch. Something weird that happened then was that I asked for the A/UX partition set with the minimum size MacOS partition, and it claimed that it was 2Mb, but when I rebooted, it was about 1.1Mb, which was too small to put all the launch stuff on it plus the bin, so I had to re-partition again upping the size of the MacOS partition. Ugh. Finally, 2 hours later, I had A/UX.