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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Default Partition Names on 3000 (was: Attaching a HD to a 3000)
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Date: 14 Oct 90 21:42:02 GMT
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In <1990Oct15.044259.10564@ecst.csuchico.edu>, mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
>
>	WHY can't the partition names be changed?  The default ones are the
>pits if you're used to the traditional DHx: names (or if you HATE underscores)!

So name the partition 'DH0'.

>	Well, we NewZapped KickStart and it didn't help.  The CheckSum didn't
>seem (that we could tell) enter into it.  We finally used HDToolBox to rename
>the partitions.  Which worked, until we Cold Booted.

Right. Consider... the kisckstart located in wb_x.x:devs needs to be loaded. Up
until it is loaded, you cannot execute any of its code.  How does the machine
know to boot the right file? 

>	When we Cold Booted the monster, the StartUp Shell (it was nice to find
>that it IS a SHELL) barfed with an "Unknow command 'run'" message.  And sure
>enough, the 2.0 system disks DON'T have a 'run' command in the C directory.  But
>the partition names did stay changed, and the boot 2.0 partition did seem to
>mount.
>
>QUESTIONS:
>	Where is the 'run' command for 2.0?  Is it built into the Shell?
>	Why did changing the PARTITION names cause AmigaDOS not to find 'run'?

The RUN command is built in to at least one of the shells. Since the partition
was renamed, it is fairly obvious that kickstart was not yet loaded and run,
since changing the partition name in the file you want to load will not help it
load in the first place.  Hmmm...  now how can this be?  We have a shell
showing, and yet there is no way the kickstart could be loaded.  Must be
another kickstart in there somewhere, as well as another shell.

Think about it.

-larry

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