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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP 2 Boot
Message-ID: <07635.AA07635@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 2 May 91 15:38:09 GMT
References: <9104221650.AA20431@alessia.dei.unipd.it> <47693@ut-emx.uucp> <6571@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <6571@bwdls58.bnr.ca>, dbscoop2@bwdlh417.BNR.CA
(Las Lovas) writes:

> ATTENTION GVP:  Better documentation of this feature would
> be a definite plus.

"last disk" is no longer required by the new boot algorithm.

> It doesn't tell you that it writes a mountlist entry to
> your root directory, and it doesn't tell you that you
> shouldn't remove it either.

The prep software doesn't write a MountList to your root
directory, and even if it did, you could safely remove it,
since the driver's automounting code only uses the RDB data.

Ralph