Re: IIgs woes

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Format a 3.5" drive under prodos and copy the prodos
system files to it and try booting from the drive.  If that
works, then the system disk are bad or you have the
wrong ROM version for the disk.  I believe if its a ROM
3 you will need at least 5.0.4 to boot.  Anyway, it will
need the correct ROM patches to work with either version
of the GS ROM's.
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"Hudson Hornet" <dwarts@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My first experience with a IIgs OS disk:
>
> I got some original Apple OS 5 floppies yesterday, and tried to boot one
> up. The floppy spins, the status bar gets to about 55% and stops. The
drive
> light goes off.
>
> Thinking there was something amiss, I took out the floppy and stuck in my
> Mac, just to see what happens.  While I did so, I noticed the status bar
on
> the IIgs still crawling inexorably along.  Two hours later, it had reached
> its zenith. Nothing else happenned.  I tried the System Tools disk, and
the
> status bar didn't even get that far.
>
> Tried another floppy drive.  Tried a different IIgs. Same result.
>
> Any advice?
>
> BTW, AppleWorks 5 1/4 disks work fine.