Apple //gs boot problem

From: Phil Beesley <pb14_at_leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Tue Feb 17 05:53:07 1998

On 16 Feb 98 at 9:29, Richard A. Cini wrote:

> Turned-on, yes. Warmed-up for 30s, no. The drive did finish it's
> power-on sequence and came to a rest, though, which happens in less than
> 30s.
>
> Does the GS/OS use a special boot block like the MS-DOS boot sector, or
> does it just look for the ProDOS file?

You say that the drive came from a Mac SE. Did you low level format
or re-partition the disk on the IIGS before installing GS/OS?

I share a drive between a IIGS and a couple of Macs, so the drive
has a ProDos partition and a couple of HFS ones too. Often the IIGS
barfs on startup when it comes across the APPLE_DRIVER43 partition
map; I find that a Command-Control-Reset sorts this out and the IIGS
boots normally.

Phil

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