Re: Apple SCSI & rom 1

[kemp@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Wade Kemp)]

The problem I have is on a clean disk, booting from floppy. I haven't been
able to get to a point to install an OS on the hard drive.

Wade



In Article <3679C989.7AB16449@swbell.net>, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
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>Wade Kemp writes ...
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>> I have a Rom 1 GS with a apple SCSI card. I have attached a Quantum 80 meg HD
>> to it. Every time I try to boot System 6.0.1 it crashes about half way
>> through the thermometer bar. It beeps but the bar continues filling, once
>> full nothing will happen.
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>> Is there a fix for this ?
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>     Maybe this will help ... Recently, I ran into a similar problem
>booting System 6.0.1 from our Focus Hard Card drive. What worked was to
>boot GS/OS from diskette-- a Sys 5.04 diskette was booted in this case--
>and wipe the file named "Desktop" from the ICONS/ folder on each hard
>disk partition. (Maybe wiping just the boot partition ICONS/Desktop file
>would have done the job; but, I did not feel like doing a lot of
>experimentation.)
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>Rubywand