Re: Superdrive Controllers $59

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

> In article <34BFF83D.412C@library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >My point was that in order to boot from a ProDOS formatted
> >volume, GS/OS needs the ProDOS FST.  I was pointing out
> >that this illustrates GS/OS has no default filesystem.
> 
>    The early stages of the GS/OS boot code (in Start.GS.OS) certainly
> do require a bit of a filesystem; this is why you can't boot GS/OS off
> a HFS disk without major patches to that file.

Wrong.  Start.GS.OS is independent of the file system.  It relies on
code provided by the stub OS loader (the PRODOS file in the root
directory).  This file would have to be replaced to boot from HFS.  (See
my followup to Scott's article.)

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