Re: IIgs Rom1 _weirdness_

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tmyers@autobahn.mb.ca (Todd Myers) wrote:
>	Hello, I decided to bring out my second (spare parts) GS from
>mothballs and set it up for a 'lite prgramming platform.
>
>It is a Rom1 (text splash on bootup), 1.25Meg memory (tested it's fine),
>Superdrive card & superdrive in slot 5, Apple HighSpeed SCSI in slot7
>with a 52MB Quantum in 2 partitions (17.5MB and 31.5MB...done with ADU).
>
>A minimal System6.0.1 boots from 800k floppies leaving ~400k free. I
>have tried a 1.44 ProDOS 6.0.1 boot disk...$0046 error or 'cannot load
>Start.GSOS file'...this is also the error I get when trying to boot
>from the HD (the Quantum is terminated and supplies term power, bought
>from TMS about a year before they folded). I also get $0911 errors
>after it's been on for about 30 min., the HD is on top of the GS box
>and it has a fan on the bottom for air flow thru the GS.

Are you sure that this is the EXACT same configuration as your 800K
boot disks?  It could be that the installer dumped a couple of extra
things when installing onto the 1.44MB disks or hard drive, thus
causing the ROM 1 to run out of memory.  1.25Meg is very skimpy
and this is a possible cause.

Try copying all the files from your 800K boot disk to an empty
hard drive boot partition or to an empty 1.44MB disk and see if it
boots.  Also, can you access your hard disk or 1.44MB floppies at all
when you boot from an 800K boot disk?

-Scott G.