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Re: What ever happened to the original autoboot scheme?

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From: Chris Dailey
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 14:50
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In article <10740@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax (Michael Sinz - CATS) writes:
[...]
>The floppy has a boot pri of 5.  If a hard drive is above that, the floppy will
>not be checked first.  There is, however, a problem in the system in that the
>DF0: floppy will be in the device list twice if you boot from a hard drive
>that is higher than 5 pri.

I don't know how related this is, but...  Why isn't the system bootable
from DF1:?  Will it be in 1.4?  2.0?  Not that it's that important, but 
it would be nice.

>|      /// Michael Sinz -- CATS/Amiga Software Engineer                |
>|     ///  PHONE 215-431-9422  UUCP ( uunet | rutgers ) !cbmvax!mks    |
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From: dailey@cpsin2.uucp (Chris Dailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What ever happened to the original autoboot scheme?
Keywords: adddosnode autoboot autodocs
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Date: 11 Apr 90 14:50:09 GMT
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