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Article #30323Re: Spinning disk HD boot
From: Steven Grimm
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 03:12
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 03:12
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In article <173@actisb.UUCP> federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes: >Well, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my Mega just refuses to boot from >floppy when the hard disk has a boot sector. It doesn't care whether there's >a diskette on drive A: or whatever. DCFormat has an option to write a "hard disk override" boot sector to a floppy. Usually the floppy boot code essentially passes control over to the DMA booter. > > /////// > //____ // > Federico // // "In dubio pro libido" > // __ // >BIX: fheinz // / / // >UUCP: ...!unido!tub!actisb /////// > >DISCLAIMER: I actually don't need any, but I didn't want to dissapoint you. +New! Improved! Now 100% Artificial-+-+-----------------------------------+ |# # @@@ **** &&&&& $$$$$ % %| |Steven Grimm | |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ARPA: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu | |### @ @ **** &&&& $ %%%%%| | UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth| |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ______________________________| |# # @@@ * ** &&&&& $ % %| | |"Let's see what's out there."| +-----with NutraSour(TM)! No natural colors or preservatives!------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!pasteur!agate!saturn!ssyx!koreth From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Spinning disk HD boot Message-ID: <1770@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 29 Jan 88 03:12:59 GMT References: <593@ihnet.ATT.COM> <173@actisb.UUCP> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Organization: The American Redundancy Society of America Lines: 26 Keywords: Spinning