Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!en.ecn.purdue.edu!coxr From: coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Bad boot code... Message-ID: <1990Aug30.194024.12446@ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 30 Aug 90 19:40:24 GMT References: <12903@netcom.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 33 >Article 3731 of comp.sys.apple2: >From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter) >Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 >Subject: Bad boot code... >Message-ID: <12903@netcom.UUCP> >Date: 30 Aug 90 09:08:21 GMT >Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} >Last week I discovered and remedied a problem on one of my disks. > >It was causing the machine to crash right after the title screen on >every single warm boot after booting that particular disk. > >Twas a very strange occurrance, and it seemed to be something quite >independant of the PRODOS system file itself. > >Very strange that the boot code would alter the warm-boot reset vector >this way.... What was the problem and what was the cure? I have had simialar problems and might have the same problem. Thanks, coxr@en.ecn.purdue.edu American Online: Rich Kid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And the kids they dance, they shake their bones" -GD peace, -Rich