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Article #2Re: Has this device startup volume?
From: Joerg Erdei
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
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bill@clavin.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bill Catambay) wrote: >In article <simonjw-0301960838220001@dialup06.odyssey.apana.org.au>, >simonjw@odyssey.apana.org.au (Simon Wright) wrote: > >> In article <leo-2812952132070001@adinstruments.tmx.com.au>, leo@adi.com.au >> (Leo Possajennikov) wrote: >> >> > If I know the ID of SCSI device (more exactly: bus, ID, LUN) how I can >> > know has this device startup volume or not? >> >> Leo, >> >> As far as I know, if it has a valid system file & neccessary system stuff, >> it can be a boot (startup) volume. The one selected in the "Startup Disk" >> control panel is the current startup volume. >> >> > >There would appear to be more to it than that. Well, at least FWB toolkit >would indicate so. It formats disks and will flag a disk as bootable if >the user requests. Does anyone know how to determine whether a partition >is flagged as bootable or not? And is that truly required? (or is FWB >just yanking our chains?) The Mac looks into the boot blocks to determine if a volume is bootable (= is a startup volume). Most formatters have an option to set the bootable flag for any drive/partition. Or you could look at the boot blocks using Norton Editor. Joerg Erdei
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f64bf,678f71042c68051c X-Google-Attributes: gidf64bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,678f71042c68051c X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: 104ef1,678f71042c68051c X-Google-Attributes: gid104ef1,public From: Joerg Erdei <a8101gbb@vm.univie.ac.at> Subject: Re: Has this device startup volume? Date: 1996/01/10 Message-ID: <4d0tha$1obc@ftp.univie.ac.at> X-Deja-AN: 135010231 references: <leo-2812952132070001@adinstruments.tmx.com.au> <simonjw-0301960838220001@dialup06.odyssey.apana.org.au> <bill-0401961213440001@129.197.20.15> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Molecular Cell-Biology, University of Vienna x-url: news:bill-0401961213440001@129.197.20.15 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.mac,aus.computers.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K)