Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!oliveb!amiga!kodiak
From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (was Autoconfig HD controllers)
Message-ID: <3151@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 20:33:32 GMT
References: <5708@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Kodiak Software, Campbell, CA
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In article <5708@louie.udel.EDU> aimania%killer.dallas.tx.us%CERNVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
) I've read quite a few messages on the net about autobooting disk controllers.
) But as far as I am concerned, there is no overriding benefit of an autobooting
) hard disk. Most disks take so long to spin up that you might as well have
) booted off the floppy ....  (ST225N) .... Also, any reboots after the disk
) is spun up can be accomplished faster using a small partition for RAD:.

With a different disk (ST157N, *and* a different controller), I *like*
autobooting: the same startup at both power up & reset, and no unnecessary
waiting.

) Only minor inconvenience is that you have to take any disk out of df0:
) otherwise the system will try to reboot from floppy without trying RAD:.
) Is there something you can patch in your startup sequence to force loading
) from RAD: instead of trying the floppy first?

Yes, set the BootPri in the RAD: entry in the DEVS:MountList file to 127
(actually, greater than the highest already there, but not greater than
127.  The floppy is probably the highest in your machine, at 5.  Use 127.)

Once you've done this, don't try to boot off a floppy without RemRAD'ing or
powering down -- no games with custom boot blocks, no viruses, nothing.

-- 
Bob Burns, amiga!kodiak                   _
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