Re: Boot problems on my GS!

[yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Yoshi)]

Phillip "Ty" Young (tyoung@jove.acs.unt.edu) wrote:
: Hi.  I'm having some weird, VERY sporadic boot problems on my GS w/sys 601:  
: if I don't get the timing EXACTLY right as far as when I turn the computer on 
: after the hard drive powers up, does its whining thing, etc., the system 
: crashes during the boot-up process.  What's really weird is that if I 
: turn off the power to both HD and GS, then repeat the process just about 
: exactly, everything's fine!  
: SPECS, for what it's worth:  ROM 01 GS, w/ 1.25M RAM, Apple HS SCSI card 
: (DMA on) controlling a Quantum ProDrive 40 (scsi 6).  Terminated.

	Hmmm. When I had my RamFAST w/ v2.01 and v2.02 ROMs, it used to
	do this all the time. Odd... My A2HS never did it thou. Hmm.

: Now, as a naive, new user of the GS and GS/OS, I installed the "all 
: icons" file from grind.isca.uiowa.edu and noticed recently that that's 
: 40k of icons maybe I _don't_ need.  Is this maybe a "not enough memory" 
: problem?

	I dunno. I've heard people rambling on about how too many icons
	can cause problems, but since *I* don't have more than 2 icon
	files in */Icons, I don't worry too much. Try narrowing down
	the # of icons you have: Icons aren't everything. :-) You're
	making your machine slower anyways by having a large sum of
	them there.

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