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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What ever happened to the original autoboot scheme?
Keywords: adddosnode autoboot autodocs
Message-ID: <10740@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 13:11:40 GMT
References: <23078@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <23078@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mwandel@tiger.waterloo.edu (Markus Wandel) writes:
[ deleted stuff about old docs... ]
> ...  There are no boot blocks, and the device
>with highest boot priority always wins.  Moreover, the floppy disk is not
>at boot priority zero after all; (if memory serves) it is always checked first
>and a bootable floppy always overrides everything else.  ...

The floppy has a boot pri of 5.  If a hard drive is above that, the floppy will
not be checked first.  There is, however, a problem in the system in that the
DF0: floppy will be in the device list twice if you boot from a hard drive
that is higher than 5 pri.

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