Re: Unable To Load ProDOS

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <20000116032052.23178.00000895@ng-fp1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
> 
> >I'm still getting Unable to Load ProDOS errors when trying to boot up
> >GS/OS. I've tried recopying it to disk eight times with three different
> >disks.
> 
> I'll hazard a guess.  PC Exchange does not format ProDOS disks
> with a boot block (much like old versions of AppleWorks).  This
> means that you can't boot from such disks.

No, no, no. PC Exchange _does_ format ProDOS disks with a boot block!! It
was DiskCopy that was failing! I copied the files from the DiskCopied
version onto my Mac, reformatted the disk with PC Exchange, copied the
files back, and all was well.

> Find a ProDOS boot disk that works on the IIGS.  Stick the disk
> into the Mac and delete all the files.  THEN copy your GS/OS
> boot disk files to this disk.

Umm... there is a problem with that. Before I formatted the disks on the
Mac, I had no ProDOS boot disks at all.

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