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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com> wrote in message
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: 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/f5ad8a02
fead5d7/03f5d6ade1286e99?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

Oh yeah, now I understand. However, I still don't get why anyone wants
anything but a IIgs, when it can do 99.999% of what the others can do.
Well, "Whatever floats your boat", as they say.   ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill G.