sholden@cod.nosc.mil (Steve Holden) (03/28/91)
Thanks for all those that responded, here is the summary that I promised. ****************************************************** Here is my orginal question: >Just a quick question for all the experts out there. >Apparently, it was mentioned a couple of days, weeks, >etc...ago that there was a way using a series of key >board commands to get the Classic to boot from ROM. Is >there any truth to the rumor? The responses tend to agree that the proper way to boot a Classic off the ROM is: command-option-X-O. ****************************************************** The following people provided the consenses -- Johnny (jlee@watnow.waterloo.edu ) responses with: Yes the rumour is true. I believe to use the internal disk startup in ROM you type CMD-OPT X-O all at once at bootup. Once you're in, you can setup the ROM disk to act as the startup disk afterwards. Peter (NLEWISPN@cc.curtin.edu.au) responses with Hold down command-option-X-O when you turn the machine on (and keep holding until it starts to boot). You can then set the bood device to be the ROM, and set appleshare to auto-log you into the server. But you cant install any inits (like communications inits/TCP/etc), whether this is a problem for you I dont know. My understanding is that AppleShare Server version 3 will allow the Classic's to boot from a server's System Folder. Maurice (riggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil) Yes, you boot up with Command-Option-X-O held down and up comes the System in the Mac's ROM. HOWEVER, it is a MINIMAL system... nothing more than ROM fonts, DA's, INIT's, cDev's, etc. If you really want a decent operating system, you would have to then switch launch to a System off a server... that's really what the ROM System is for, I believe. Gilles (depeyrot@imag.imag.fr) Well, on my Mac Classic, when I boot and hold down the keys Command-Option-X-O (very easy to do too since you have to cancel the dialog that appears asking you if you want to rebuild the desktop without realeasing those keys), a rom disk appears, then all you have to do is set the startup on that disk. gort@cup.portal.com had this to say ... Try holding down cmd-opt-x-o on restarting or cold starting.This will do the trick. This brings up a ram disk with system 6.0.3, i believe the finder is 6.1.x (that's what it says!). You can use the control panel to set startup to ramdisk and after that, everytime you turn on your machine, it boots from rom( without holding down any keys!). i also read that there is an arcade game (called 'duck hunt' hidden in the rom, but that was in an april issue of a computer mag, so it may be a joke (then again, it may be an 'easter egg'). rcook@ircsun1.ccmblab.nd.edu Hold down Command-Option-X-O when starting the classic and you will get the secret rom disk. If you want to boot off this disk, you have to open the control panel, choose startup device and select the rom disk. Restart and the computer will boot off it. The rom disk contains Appleshare, so now you could access the network with a diskless computer. If anyone has any specific questions I'd be happy to respond using e-mail. Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------- - Steve Holden Scientific - - 4th Dimension Developer/Mac Programmer Applications - - (sholden@cod.nosc.mil) International - - Corporation - - - - ** Opinions expressed are my own, and not my employer's ** - - ** or the government's. ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------