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Re: Booting problem (Prodos)
- Subject: Re: Booting problem (Prodos)
- From: david@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Date: 8 Oct 1994 10:33:41 +1000
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
- References: <3702pt$1mg@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
ronlouie@u.washington.edu (Ron Louie) writes:
>So...is it Zlink (which runs fine with my resident Prodos dated 1993 from
>a harddrive), or the recent Prodos, or some other thing? Does prodos
>look for a file named "startup" specifically?
The boot block looks for and runs a file called "PRODOS" in the root
directory of the disk. It must be a sapling file (>512 bytes) and be a SYS
(type $FF) file.
PRODOS looks for and runs the first file with a name ending with .SYSTEM and
a type of SYS.
If BASIC.SYSTEM is run it looks for a file called STARTUP of type SYS, BIN,
BAS or TXT (I think) and smart runs it.
So a minimum disk would have:
PRODOS
ZLINK.SYSTEM
+ any files ZLINK needs.