Re: GSII boots only in PROdos

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wcbland@pacifier.com (Bill Bland) wrote:

>My GSII will only boot from the Install disk (6.0.1 disk 1), and then
>only into PROdos. It used to boot from the System disk (disk 2).
>Could it be because of a dead battery?
>If I had never booted from the System disk, I wouldn't know that
>something was out of kilter. When I *do* boot the machine (in PROdos),
>I cannot go to the System disk, either.
>What's the reason, and is there a cure?

It sounds like you or someone else copied a regular PRODOS
file onto the root directory of your System and Install disks.
This means that the "ProDOS" file which, although the same
name, is nothing more than a detour sign under GS/OS, has
been overwritten.  If this is the case, your only option is to get
another set of disks because now your disks are nothing more
than ProDOS 8 disks.

I don't know how your disks got overwritten this way, though.

Remember, although GS/OS and ProDOS 8 both have files
named PRODOS in the root directory, they are NOT the
same.