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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Strange Boot Behavior
- Message-ID: <1247@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <9211152008.AA07254@eagle>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:32:40 GMT
-
- levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:
-
- >Arggh,
- >My maxtor 535 went south after about 60 days...
-
- Ack! Bad news... especially since I just bought 2 of 'em!
-
- >The replacement arrived yesterday. After going through the
- >torturus reinstallation I noticed that the drive will not
- >boot! (It is an external). What I had done in the past was
- >to hold down the <cmd>-<opt>-<shift>-<del> key. This causes
- >the internal drive to be skipped. After the "question mark"
- >in a disk icon appears I release the keys. Two weeks ago this
- >would allow the external drive to boot. Now the internal drive
- >goes ahead and becomes the startup disk!
-
- >I have tried (several times) reinstalling the Mac Software on
- >the external disk, I have swapped/tried all possible permutations
- >of the the APS and Apple drivers all to no avail. I have set the
- >startup device to the external drive but this does not work either.
-
- Just a few ideas...
-
- 1. The APS driver is based on SCSI Director, byt Apollyonics (sp?).
- This driver uses a few bits strangely. The most important one
- is the Mount bit. Sometimes (most of the time) APS Tools
- doesn't correctly set this and automatic mounting isn't
- enabled. This is esp. true if you install different
- drivers and then switch around. The APS Assistant CDev
- should be able to set things correctly.
-
- 2. The Boot blocks may not be setup correctly... is the System
- Folder on the disk Blessed? If not, open it, Get Info
- on Finder and System, close and reboot.
- --
- Jim Jagielski | "It is not I who am crazy...
- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | it is I who am MAD!"
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