s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (04/13/91)
I have a 2 drive system and currently suspect DF0: is out of alignment. I'd like to boot from DF1: to see if I have any better luck with my disks. I have seen a program which lets you select which drive you wish to boot from on reboot, but cannot seem to find it anywhere in my disks, and can't remember the name of it. Can someone please tell me the name of any program that does this and where I might find it? Thanks. Peter (s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au)
al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) (04/16/91)
Hmmm... booting from df1... I suspect that you could do it in one of several ways: 1> Get a hardware hack that, with a swith, exchanged which drive you use to boot, but I think it also exchanges drive id's. 2> In software, mount df1 with another name (I don't know if it's necesary to use another name) and set it's bootpri field so that the machine looks at it when searching for workbench. BUT, there's a catch: you have to mount the device, and that means that this is like a catch-22 situation. 3> Hack up an a1000 kickstart disk, and burn some new eproms. If you find a prog to hack a kickstart disk, send me some email, there's some things I'd like to do to mine :) Gustavo -- | Gustavo Cordova Avila | al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx | | Electronic Systems Engineering | PL158305@tecmtyvm.bitnet | +--------------------------------+------------------------------------+
yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) (04/16/91)
al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) writes: > Hmmm... booting from df1... I suspect that >you could do it in one of several ways: >1> Get a hardware hack that, with a swith, exchanged > which drive you use to boot, but I think it also > exchanges drive id's. The program ATOOL does switches them via a (Heck what's the Word?) reset-vector-alteration (Good as word as any eh?) But if ya boot offa df1: df1: wil BECOME df0: from then on till ya reboot. Interesting.. I wanna boot offa a RAD disk with out getting the 1.3 roms! :^) Or boot offa my 1020 drive, just to show them! How about booting offa my serial port!.. Yea... (Now that sounds silly) -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu aka Willis F York aka Squid on IRC The only thing that Apple invented is the idea to borrow Xerox-invented ideas. (Hope THIS sig don't insult anyone!) :^)