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From: chris@tharr.UUCP (Chris Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Booting an ill HD (Was: TOS 1.4 vs. old (1988) ICD HD utilities)
Keywords: TOS 1.4, ICD, icdboot.prg, bombs
Message-ID: <964@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 06:48:44 GMT
References: <384@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> <2150@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: chris@tharr.UUCP (Chris Allen)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <2150@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
]
]Way back, Dave Small had a neat program in START that would bypass the booting
]of an adled hard disk.  It does cheat -- jumps into ROMS.  The address needs
]to be changed for TOS1.4 but it the only sure fire way to get control when
]1) the boot image is sick  or 2) .acc progs are bombing.  It saved my life
](i.s. hard disk) several times.

Why not just switch off [or unplug] the hard disk, boot the computer from a
floppy, switch on the hard disk [or plug it in] and boot it manually? This
is what I do all the time when I have nasty .accs etc


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