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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: Strange Boot Behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.223324.19530@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <9211152008.AA07254@eagle>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:33:24 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <9211152008.AA07254@eagle> levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:
- >Arggh,
- >My maxtor 535 went south after about 60 days...
- >
- >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.
- >
- >I have tried dragging the system folder from the internal to the
- >external, this did not do any good either.
- >
- >The external drive does mount OK and starting the A/UX Startup
- >application DOES start A/UX!
- >
- >How can I get my external drive to boot?
- >
- We had a similar problem with a Macinstor 330MB external drive. When
- set to be the boot disk, we sporadically saw this problem, where it
- would be skipped and the machine would boot from the internal drive
- regardless of how the startup disk option was set. An Apple
- representative told us that this happened because the external drive
- didn't spin up fast enough at boot-up, and thus wasn't recognized by the
- machine as even being there, so it fell back to the internal drive to
- boot off of. We found that once the machine was running, if you choose
- 'reboot' from the special menu, it would always work properly,
- presumably because the disk was already 'spun up'. You might try this
- and see if it works for you, at least to determine if that is your
- problem. We never came up with a real solution, except that that
- machine (the only A/UX machine in our lab), has become a fairly
- important server, and is thus always on. That pretty much fixes booting
- problems, because it almost never boots, being always up ;-).
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-