Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMBOOT and the Megas
Message-ID: <122@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 87 14:19:44 GMT
References: <608@aucs.UUCP> <900@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <900@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>in article <608@aucs.UUCP>, 870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) says:
>> 
>> Hi all, well my Mega2 just landed on my desk, really nice. I've got a question for all other Mega owners using the hard disks, I have been using GEMBOOT with
>> my 1040ST all along, when I boot up the Mega two bombs appear then disappear
>> after GEMBOOT has done its thing.
>
>DO NOT USE GEMBOOT.  Use FOLDRXXX from Atari.  HINSTALL should be available,
>too... It makes your hard disk bootable (no "boot floppy" needed).
>
The lastest version of GEMBOOT which was distributed something like
half a year ago, allows you to set the location of the sole undocumented
variable that Konrad uses in GEMBOOT. Matter of fact I used GEMBOOT
without problems on one of the first Mega's that arrived in Switzerland
after changing the GEMBOOT startup file. 

>patches the appropriate location in the OS.  In the case of the Mega
>ROMs, he actually added a pointer in the OS header which points to
>the necessary spot, so FOLDRXXX will work for all future ROM releases.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Didn't Atari claim it was working on a new '40 folder bug'less OS?                               

>Even old TOS ROM users should probably not use GEMBOOT... I certainly
>wouldn't trust it, and with FOLDRXXX and HINSTALL available, you just
>don't need it.
Hmmmm, as Landon Dyer once said (a long time ago) FOLDRXXX does NOT fix
the other problem with GEMDOS management of the internal directory
list (mutiple bad copies of the same block), GEMBOOT does provide
a workaround  for this problem (so I wouldn't trust FOLDRXXX) plus
a lot of other nice things.


                            Simon Poole
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