Re: Strange IIgs error

[Noah Sager <noahsager@mac.com>]

Jon Bettencourt wrote:
> 
> In article <20000901171419.02707.00002113@ng-fi1.aol.com>,
> ljsilicon@aol.comSpamSUX (R.A.Guy) wrote:
> 
> > Noah wrote...
> >
> > >It is my understanding that all you need to boot a IIgs is a properly
> > >formatted disk with "PRODOS" and "BASIC.SYSTEM" on it.
> >
> > Is it really ProDOS that you have on the disk. If you took the file
> PRODOS from
> > a GS system disk; that ain't what it is!
> 
> Yes, but if he took it from there, it would say "CANNOT LOAD START.GS.OS"
> or something like that, not "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS."

Let's get this straight:

When I took the "PRODOS" file from a GS system disk I used to get the START.GS.OS error, but then 
I messed around with some files and now I get the "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS" error. My disk drive 
shows no indication of failure and I cleaned it yesterday, so that is not the problem.

I try to minimize problems by using a ProDOS partition I made when I formatted my hard drive.

In the past, I used to get "Check Startup Device" errors. Could that have something to do with 
it?

BTW, many of the links to disk images in the FAQ are broken. How can I get them?

Noah Sager
noahsager@mac.com