Re: Catch 22?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

"Jay C. Sabol, L.S.W." wrote:

> Ed, thank you very much. I made the disk and, just as you said, I was able
> to access my partitions and install 6.01. But, I'm still stuck because it
> won't allow me (at least as far as I can tell) to select my 6.01 partition
> as the start-up device. In the control panels it won't allow it - it does
> not have the scanning option - and when I try to do it "manually" by going
> into the system and opening Start, or using the launcher, it won't allow me
> to select the partition because it's write protected. I'm really stumped -
> how do people install 6.01 on a partition and then by able to select it as
> the start-up device? All I am able to do is start up from the SCSI Boot disk
> I made. Is there a way to disable write protection on the 6.01 partition to
> allow it to be selected? Is that what my problem is?

With the IIgs hard drives you generally don't have a choice of startup partitions.
On most SCSI setups the IIgs will want to start off the first partition of the SCSI

device with the highest ID #. If that's where you installed System 6.0.1 then
possibly you need to set your SCSI cards slot as the startup slot in the control
panel.

You can reach the control panel by pressing and releasing the escape key while
holding down the Apple and control.
In the control panel called slots you can change the startup slot. If your SCSI
card
is in slot 7 then set it at scan or slot 7. If your SCSI card is in another slot
then set
it for that slot #. after you've exited the control panel you'll need to reboot
before
most changes come into effect

    Wayne