Re: ROM 01 GS diskless boot to Appleshare. YES IT WORKS!!!

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Thanks for finding that, Roger.   Maybe I'm not losing my marbles -or my
technical touch- after all.
Electronics is my field, so it's very embarrassing to fail to get something
working that other people say they can do with no problem.  ;-)
-Paul

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote
>
> I've networked my IIgs to my old PowerBook 5300 before for file
> transfers, but I don't have AppleShare and have never had any reason for
> network booting. As far as I know there is no reason a ROM 1 IIgs can't
> boot from a Mac, however I found this at Apple's Knowledge Archive.
>
> I would guess that at some point something broke on the Mac side, and
> Apple sure as hell wasn't going to worry about fixing it!
>
> from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=15818
>
> >
> Apple IIGS: Booting From an AppleShare Server (7/94)
>
> Article ID:15818
> Created:7/14/94
> Modified:7/14/94
>
> TOPIC
>
>       I have an Apple IIGS, and it does not boot properly from an
> AppleShare server. How can I boot the Apple IIGS from the server?
>
> DISCUSSION
>
>       This problem only happens with Apple IIGS computers that have ROM
> 01. There are two solutions:
>
>       1) Upgrade to ROM 03. It doesn't have a problem booting from an
> AppleShare
>       server.
>
>       2) Create an AppleShare boot disk and start the Apple IIGS from
> that disk.
>
>       This allows you to use the Auto Logon feature to set the boot disk
> to automatically log into the server and launch a program at startup.
> >
>
> --
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
>
> Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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