Re: Boot System 6.0.1 on a Zip 250 disk from floppy?

[grent@comcast.net]

On Jul 29, 6:36 pm, "Kathleen Hartz" <PHa...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> My trusty 250 meg SCSI hasd drive just died and  I can't find a drive that
> small to replace it.  Figured I would just use my backup of my startup
> volume on the Zip Drive and run System 6 from there.  But I can't boot
> directly from the Zip drive......?
> I think I read where one can create a simple floppy boot disk to then boot
> GSOS on the Zip?
> Here is what I tried:  1) copy Prodos and Basic system to a floppy drive.
> 2) create and save basic file named 'Startup' onto that same disk.
> 10 PRINT CHR$(4)"-/Iomega.A/Prodos"
> 20 END
> save Startup
>
> However , when I boot the thus created Startup disk I get a message
> something like " Can not load Startup GSOS file "      and the dreaded
> swooping cursor.
>
> Can someone help?
> or shoud I go with a CF card instead of a used hard drive?
> Or will the Zip drive suffice?

Hi,
 How do you know that the HD is bad? Smoke, grinding  noise.? A lot of
times the controller card edge that goes in the slot needs to be
cleaned after a few years.
  Sometimes you have reseat the chips on the card and mother board. I
was given a Ramfast the looked dead. Just pushing down on all the
chips, hearing that srunch sound, as I pushed on each chip. Then the
card worked fine.
  Deliverence and Prosel work well fixing flies on the HD.

BTW sent you an Email also.

Take Care