Re: Booting up a IIgs

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

Try to boot up System 6.0.1 on the /system floppy disk that comes with
6.0.1. Or you could possibly use 6.0 or 5.02 or 5.04. See if the Vulcan
drive appears on the desktop and try a disk verify to see how healthy the
drive is. As those drives are a little old now you may be dealing with a
damaged HDD (not easy or cheap to replace _IF_ you can find one). My Vulcan
40 died on me about a month ago, prior to that it had 400+ bad blocks marked
by a BAD.BLOCKS file.
If the drive passes that test I would reload the system software clean by
running the /INSTALL floppy disk etc that comes with 6.0.1. That is best
done after re-formatting the HDD. Obviously save any valuable files first.

Mark


Doug Suriano wrote in message <3ACFE788.A8104BE7@hotmail.com>...
>I have a IIgs (Woz edition), with  a SirusRAM 2 meg card, and a Vulcan
>20 meg hard drive system. I made a boot up disk, so i could boot up the
>system with GS/OS 6. However, when I tried moving the system folder to
>my Vulcan Hard Drive, then booted up the system, it would stop when the
>"thermometer" reached it peak. It just stops loading. Am I missing a
>system tool or enabler?
>