Re: Can I use my Apple II to get an Apple III booted?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<589c43f0-9b5c-421c-89a6-61ba0146e188@l12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
 A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 28, 8:22 am, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
> wrote:
> 
> > An analysis of the actual boot code shows that it is in fact the 
> > same boot block...
> 
> Yup, it is. I was implying that by just adding the missing stuff, 
> since there are a few Apple II utilities that did not bother writing 
> the complete boot block set to the disks, if you did a disk copy, 
> from a /// bootable disk and then just worked with it, you'd never 
> encounter an issue. However, if you created a new disk and put all 
> the correct items on said disk.. and it still didn't work- why, then, 
> the rest is missing.
> 
> In short, though it's probably best to copy over the first four 
> blocks, that way you are ensured that continuity.
> 
> "this is not the bootstrap you are looking for.. move along.. " "this 
> is not the bootstrap we are looking for.. read the next block"..

I was happy to see that Apple System Utilities 3.1 appears to write both 
blocks 0 and 1.

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