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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Auto Boot Bypass
Message-ID: <667@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:50:39 GMT
References: <8908041913.AA02298@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <484@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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  By the way, why does TOS look for a floppy disk to boot FIRST, even if a
hard disk is connected & on line ? Wouldn't it be better to boot from the
floppy disk _only_when_the_Alternate_key_is_pressed_ ? Doing that you could
get rid of this real frustrating wait period if no disk is in the drive.

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