Re: Questions about IIGS, hard drives, and booting different OSes...

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

Bill et al,

OK, I've got something working that is OK, and I was able to conduct
tests and figure things out thanks to the "Quad Booter" article from a
few years ago, at:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/f5ad8a02fead5d7/03f5d6ade1286e99?lnk=gst&q=boot+basic.system&rnum=1#03f5d6ade1286e99

So anyway, I have GS/OS 6.01 installed on the first partition, but I
have renamed GSOS's "PRODOS" to "BOOT.GSOS" and copied/renamed the P8
file in the /SYSTEM folder to "PRODOS" in the root of the first
partition.

The result is: booting to Partition 1 fires up ProDOS 8 and launches
ProSEL8. I then have an item under ProSEL 8 that launches BOOT.GSOS via
a teeny AppleSoft program, and I choose it if I want GS/OS.

Why did I do all this, when I just could have held down the "8" key to
get ProDOS 8? Well, I want to be able to install the CFFA/CF card in my
//e whenever I want/need and use all that 8-bit software, and I can't
have a boot process on that CF card that a //e won't understand. This
also ruled out using TaifunBoot, which I tried, and concluded uses
graphics modes that a //e wouldn't understand. (If someone can correct
me on this, let me know.)

So Bill, thanks for the final advice, but now I think you can see that
there *is* a need to hack something together in this case - namely, a
single partition that both a //e and a GS can boot from. I guess you
missed that from one of my first posts in this thread. ;-)

-Warr


Bill Garber wrote:
> "Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com> wrote in message
> 1154900231.248836.323010@n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1154900231.248836.323010@n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> :
> : Andy McFadden wrote:
> : > Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:
> : > > Andy, your setup of booting into ProDOS 8 and then using ProSEL too
> : > > fire up GS/OS is about what I had in mind (I've been a hardcore ProSEL
> : > > 8 user for decades.). But tell me, is there any reason I couldn't
> : > > install GS/OS on the second partition and launch it from ProSEL this
> : > > way? I can't think of any reason why not...
> : >
> : > I don't know.  Haven't tried it that way.  Seems like it should work.
> :
> : Well, it doesn't seem to work.
> :
> : I have ProDOS 8 on the first partition. I installed GS/OS 6.01 on the
> : third partition. I've renamed the PRODOS file from GSOS to PRODOS.GSOS
> : as directed.
> :
> : No matter how I execute PRODOS.GSOS (launcher, basic program, direct
> : command from the basic prompt), I always get the error:
> :
> : Unable to load START.GS.OS file. Error=$0046
> :
> : with the Apple zooming back and forth.
> :
> : I'd love to have GS/OS 6 on the third parititon, and GS/OS 5 on the
> : second partition, and ProDOS 8 on the first, if for no other reason
> : that I could put the CFFA in the //e and use all the ProDOS 8 programs
> : on the first partition there...
> :
> : Any more thoughts?
> :
> : -Warr
>
> First off, Install GS/OS 6 on partition 1. Everything, and I mean nearly
> everything except DOS 3.3 stuff will run under it. It has it's own BASIC
> interpreter right there. Now, if you want to run something strictly ProDOS,
> simply put it in a folder, and run it from it's own folder and it will use
> it's own ProDOS that exists in that folder. Please folks, stop trying to
> hack stuff that definitely doesn't need to be hacked.
>
> Also, if you have the DOS 3.3 FST installed, you can even run those from
> under GS/OS 6. If you have further problems, let me know, and I'll attempt
> to repeat your issue, and find you a solution post-haste.
> 
> Bill Garber