Re: Mac Plus and 20SC

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

: "George Parada" <georgeparada@rogers.com> wrote in message
: I have Mac Plus 1mb and 20SC hd.
: Both work alone but Mac won't boot from it.
: I don't have any system disk for Plus but hd
: has system 7.0 on it.  I set scsi id to 0,1,2,3 and
: it didn't boot.

Bill Garber (willy46pa@comcast.net) wrote:

: Macs have a system switch that sets the boot drive
: prior to shutting down the system. You need to set this
: to the drive that you want to boot on the next startup.
: The OS's are slightly different so I can't say off-hand
: where to do this on version 7.0, but if you check all the
: menu options while running, you'll find it.

I thought it was a control panel item..."Set Startup" or something like that.

A thought...is this a PRAM setting that would be lost when the battery
craters?  I thought the Mac would boot from any available startup disk and
that set startup was only needed if it couldn't find a bootable disk.

Hmmm...Do you have another system available?  You can download System 7
from Apple's web site, and I think one of the disks is a bare-bones
startup disk...may even be 800k, I'm not sure...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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