[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] Booting an ill HD

chris@tharr.UUCP (Chris Allen) (09/11/90)

In article <2150@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
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]Way back, Dave Small had a neat program in START that would bypass the booting
]of an adled hard disk.  It does cheat -- jumps into ROMS.  The address needs
]to be changed for TOS1.4 but it the only sure fire way to get control when
]1) the boot image is sick  or 2) .acc progs are bombing.  It saved my life
](i.s. hard disk) several times.

Why not just switch off [or unplug] the hard disk, boot the computer from a
floppy, switch on the hard disk [or plug it in] and boot it manually? This
is what I do all the time when I have nasty .accs etc


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franky@netmbx.UUCP (Frank Bergemann) (09/14/90)

In article <964@tharr.UUCP> chris@tharr.UUCP (Chris Allen) writes:
]In article <2150@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
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]
]Why not just switch off [or unplug] the hard disk, boot the computer from a
]floppy, switch on the hard disk [or plug it in] and boot it manually? This
]is what I do all the time when I have nasty .accs etc
]
]
 and you never saw sparks when you plug in the system with HD and Computer
 switched on ?
 i hold down the alternate key while switching on the system and it will 
 boot from disk, ignoring the HD, does this only work with tos1.4 ?

 ...Franky.............