Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmdeo!adspdk!hclausen From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Which directories must be present to boot? Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 90 13:32:58 GMT References: <5962@castle.ed.ac.uk> Lines: 22 >In article <5962@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes: >look more like a UNIX system I discovered a (to my mind) bizarre fact about >the boot process. If sys:c and sys:libs are not present the boot will start >the drive motor and then hang. If I create sys:c and sys:libs as empty >directories my startup file is read and I can assign libs: and c: to their >correct places. You don't happen to use BindNames or a similar program to do the assigns? BindNames has a bug that will cause it to hang the machine under these circumstances. Either have the directories present, make the SYS:, L:, Libs:, Fonts: etc assigns explicit in BindNames, or use the real assign command. If you use the Assign command already, I'll keep quiet... -Henrik -- | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data (Fido: 2:230/22.33) | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen | \__"Do not accept the heart that is the slave to reason" - Qawwali trad__/