Re: Weird problem: SCSI flash drive works but won't boot

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Stephen wrote:
> One more piece of data here.  I was reading about some issues with
> using HFS volumes on both the IIGS and the Mac, here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/8a79cdf7412b964f/ccb701edb15917ba?lnk=gst&q=genex.shk#ccb701edb15917ba
>
> (BTW, the indicated FTP site is no longer live; you can find the same
> file here: http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/upl1998/Feb98/GenEx.shk)
>
> This thread talks about using GenEx.shk to extract a
> GenericMacSCSIDriver from ADU.  For good measure I tried this out and
> put the driver in the right place on my GS/OS boot floppy.  I also
> followed the indicated instructions to create a single partition in
> ADU, force a low-level "hard format", and then install the mac
> driver.  Still no luck.  As before, I can install GS/OS on the drive
> but it won't boot.
>
> Does anyone know of additional steps that are needed to made a drive
> bootable?  Or maybe a different partitioning tool I should be trying?

Here's a retro idea--try using the Chinook SCSI Utility for partitioning
and format the partitions for ProDOS using, say, Copy II Plus.

ProDOS won't be able to "see" a partition until it is formatted.

These are quite generic tools, and if they don't create a bootable first
partition, then something subtle is going on.

-michael

******** Note new website URL ********

NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing!
Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."