Re: Questions about IIGS, hard drives, and booting different OSes...

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Andy, your setup of booting into ProDOS 8 and then using ProSEL too
> > fire up GS/OS is about what I had in mind (I've been a hardcore ProSEL
> > 8 user for decades.). But tell me, is there any reason I couldn't
> > install GS/OS on the second partition and launch it from ProSEL this
> > way? I can't think of any reason why not...
>
> I don't know.  Haven't tried it that way.  Seems like it should work.

Well, it doesn't seem to work.

I have ProDOS 8 on the first partition. I installed GS/OS 6.01 on the
third partition. I've renamed the PRODOS file from GSOS to PRODOS.GSOS
as directed.

No matter how I execute PRODOS.GSOS (launcher, basic program, direct
command from the basic prompt), I always get the error:

Unable to load START.GS.OS file. Error=$0046

with the Apple zooming back and forth.

I'd love to have GS/OS 6 on the third parititon, and GS/OS 5 on the
second partition, and ProDOS 8 on the first, if for no other reason
that I could put the CFFA in the //e and use all the ProDOS 8 programs
on the first partition there...

Any more thoughts?

-Warr