taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (01/11/91)
I tried moving the RAMFast to slot 6 (used to be in slot 7), but Xenocide
still doesn't work. It hangs just before the point when it asks for the key
disk. Has anyone tried using the unprotected version of Xenocide? Since it
doesn't have to look for the floppy, it might work with the RAMFast.
I also encountered a little quirk I never knew about. I forgot to change
the boot slot from Slot 7 when I moved the RAMFast, but the system managed to
find the first partition and boot from it anyway! Does the GS automatically
poll each slot until it finds something to boot? I thought this only happens
when the Startup Slot is set to 'Scan'.
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> I also encountered a little quirk I never knew about. I forgot to change >the boot slot from Slot 7 when I moved the RAMFast, but the system managed to >find the first partition and boot from it anyway! Does the GS automatically >poll each slot until it finds something to boot? I thought this only happens >when the Startup Slot is set to 'Scan'. > Setting the startup drive to a specific slot just means to ignore possible bootable devices in higher numbered slots, i.e. scanning starts at the named slot and works down. "Scan" and "Slot 7" are therefore identical in behaviour. A possible scenario where this comes to use: - Hard disk controller in slot 2, - 3.5" connected to the disk port controlled by slot 5 firmware and - 5.25" drives bootable through slot 6 firmware. With slot 5 as the startup drive the system won't try to boot from the 5.25" drive (saving some time), uses a 3.5" startup disk if present or goes straight to the hard disk. - Matthias Kapffer