Re: finder 5.4 bomb

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From: David Goldsmith
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 21:03

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In article <765@lsrhs.UUCP> schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (Chris Schmidt) writes:
>Bring up the control panel in 5.4 (nice layout guys, much improved over the
>clockless previous), click on the startup device (bottom) icon, then
>click back on the mouse icon and (as Tex Avery used to say) kerblooey. I'm
>running an SE with two floppies and nothing but a mouse hooked into it (and
>I mean nothing, Apple didn't send us our keyboards when they shipped our
>SE's) and when I click on "startup device" I get a blank-right-half of the
>dialog box.  

This is a known bug in the Startup Device cdev, and is fixed in system
4.1.  It only occurs if there are no hard disks attached and Startup Device
is selected.  Just don't select Startup Device if you have no hard disks
attached (like the old joke about hitting your head against the wall:
if it hurts, stop doing it).
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder 5.4 bomb
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 17:03:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 17:03:13 1987
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