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From: cs225af@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Control Panel quirks
Message-ID: <15800105@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 01:39:50 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs225af    Mar 16 13:28:00 1990



>	I've been having problems with my control panel NDA. Has
> anybody, who boots from a harddisk, had it ask for the startup disk?
> There is no way out of this endless loop that I've tried, since
> obviously, my startup disk is available. I've already removed all
> non-apple stuff from my setup, desk.accs, and cdevs. The darn thing
> used to work and I can't think of what I coulda done to it.

Did you do any of the following:

  * change the name of the NDA file itself?

    the program has its name hard coded into itself, so if you change the
    name of the NDA it gets really confused....

  * Delete any of the CDEV files, and/or the CDEV.INFO file, sometime after
    you booted up?

    when the NDA starts up the first time you run it, it checks the
    */SYSTEM/CDEVS directory for any CDEVS in it, and rebuilds the CDEV.INFO
    if necessary.  if, after it's been run once, you rename or delete any
    of the files in the CDEV directory it doesn't notice the changes, so the
    CDEV.INFO file isn't updated, and it looks for the original name.

I originally had problems like this because I renamed the NDA file.  It did
not let me use the Control Panel until I changed the name back!  Oh well....

Hope any of this helps....

--rubio  (rubio-1@uiuc.edu)