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From: rmichel@pro-grouch.cts.com (Russel Michel)
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Subject: Re: Launching GSOS from ProDOS 8
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Date: 24 Oct 89 04:00:56 GMT
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Network Comment: to #5743 by Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca

>From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca (Unknown User)
>Subject: Launching GSOS from ProDOS 8

>  I want to have my hard drive equipped GS boot into ProDOS 8 and run a
simple
>program selector (I'm using Bird's Better Bye), but I want to be able to
>launch GSOS easily on demand.  I installed GSOS 5.0 and it works fine if I
>boot straight into it, but if I rename ProDOS to GSOS and then put ProDOS 8
on
>the drive and boot that way, it doesn't work when I select GSOS from the
>selector.  GSOS starts loading and gets to the desktop where it beeps and
then
>hangs.  This approach worked fine with the old ProDOS 16.
>  Is anybody out there succesfully booting into ProDOS 8 and then running
GSOS
>from a selector?

Try renaming ProDOS to something other than "GSOS".  I use a setup similar to
ys:  P8 renamed to ProDOS placed in the root directory of my hard disk along
with BASIC.SYSTEM and a short Applesoft STARTUP file.  ProDOS from System Disk
5.0 is now called GSOS.GO.  The BASIC program simply gives three options: QUIT
to BBB, exit to BASIC, or run GSOS.  It's quick & dirty, but allows me to boot
off my hard disk and go straight into a ProDOS 8 application via Bird's Better
Bye, and still have GSOS readily available.  It works quite well.  I think
your
problem stems from the fact that there is a file in /SYSTEM.DISK/SYSTEM called
"GSOS" and (I think) you're confusing the system software by having two files
called "GSOS" even though they are in different directories.  Hope this solves
your woes!
                                                Russ

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