Re: What ever happened to the original autoboot scheme?

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From: Michael Sinz - CATS
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 13:36

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In article <1990Apr11.145009.10324@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@cpsin2.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes:
>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.

It's in there...  (Lower priorities, but...)

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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What ever happened to the original autoboot scheme?
Keywords: adddosnode autoboot autodocs
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Date: 12 Apr 90 13:36:53 GMT
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