Re: Booting from ProFile on IIe possible?

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <3hareq$nh4@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
Greg R. Achenbach <lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu> wrote:
>The subject line pretty much says it.  I hooked up a 5 meg ProFile to a 
>IIe last night.  It seems to work fine, but I can't boot from it.  I 
>tried putting the interface card in both slots 5 and 7.  The only thing 
>that happens is the 5.25 drive (a DuoDisk) attempts to boot every time.  If 
>there is no disk in it, the 5.25 just spins constantly.  If I unplug the 
>5.25, the ProFile still doesn't boot.  (Yes, I did put Prodos and some 
>system files in the root directory).  Am I trying something impossible 
>here?  Most of my experience is with IIc's and GS's. I don't know IIe's 
>well.  Any tips much appreciated.

If the //e's not enhanced, you have to do PR# to boot from anything other than
a 5.25. The enhanced //e and IIgs recognize 3.5's, RAM cards, and hard disks
as bootable devices when doing the slot scan but older II's don't. I'm guessing
you're using an unenhanced //e.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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