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

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

All,

First of all, thanks for all the responses. I'll look into Ninjaforce's
booting program (which I assume allows one to boot only between GS/OS
and ProDOS from the first partition?

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...

Thanks again,

Warr


Andy McFadden wrote:
> Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or would I install ProDOS 8 on the first parition, GS/OS on the second,
> > and then manually launch GS/OS from ProDOS 8 when I wanted it? That
> > doesn't seem right.
>
> I boot into ProDOS 8, and select GS/OS from a ProSel menu if I want
> to boot it.  Both are on the first partition.
>
> There's a trick to it: you rename the GS/OS "ProDOS" file to "ProDOS.GSOS",
> then have ProSEL launch a BASIC program ("BOOT.GSOS") that just does a
> PRINT CHR$(4)"-ProDOS.GSOS".  I don't remember why the visit to BASIC.System
> is necessary, but something went funny without it.
>
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