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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Auto Boot Bypass
Message-ID: <4913@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 13:16:21 GMT
References: <711@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <711@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>For 2 years I have auto booted off a hard disk.
>I have used the Bypass program by Small in Start magazine to save me
>when the /auto or .acc program went bad and the system wouldnt boot.
>
>This program allowed the disk driver (aka AHDI.PRG) to be read in from the
>floppy, and the hard disk wasn't accessed.  Then I could fix the problem.
>
>Now, I find it is incompatible with TOS1.4 .  Not unexpected! 
>
>What now?  Does anyone have a similar program that works on tos1.4???

Depending upon which software you are running, there are usually hooks
in the auto boot code to allow you to prevent an auto boot whenever you want.

Check the documentation from the vendor of your driver.

The more common ones are holding down a shift key, the Alt key, the
Control key, or some combination of them when powering up your system.

Most bypass techniques are effective only at power up, not at reset.
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*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA 
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