Re: GS/OS on a Sider?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6a9doi$kog$1@ash.ridgecrest.ca.us>,
Kenny Melton <kmelton@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote:
>Does anyone know  if it is possible to run GS/OS out of the ProDOS partition
>of a Sider Hard Disk? I have tried installing it and it get's to the end of
>the "Welcome to GS/OS" (or something like that) progress bar and it stops.

   That thermometer is advanced by an interrupt-based task. Even if
something crashes during boot, it'll just keep on going. [Certain very
spectacular crashes might manage to stop it, but odds are that you'd
notice such a thing.] Also, the thermometer is purely guesswork by the
OS-- it figures that the thermometer will take exactly the same time
as the last time you booted; it's not related to current booting
progress atall. If booting takes much longer (such as a real boot
after a shift boot), it'll go to the end before things finish
loading. Be patient in such cases.

>For some reasons it won't recognize my ProDOS partitions unless I boot from
>one of them running P8 and then boot into GS/OS (IN#5). Does anyone know a
>little BASIC program I  can write and put on /HARD1 so that it will boot
>/HARD2 (the second ProDOS partition)?

   Put GS/OS on partition #1. That might mean rearranging things, but
it's the best solution.

Nathan Mates
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