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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Odd startup behavior
Summary: Fixed
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.202643.20129@news.media.mit.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 20:26:43 GMT
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Greetings,

  I've found the source of my odd startup behavior (where the display cards
would initialize, the happy mac would come up, and then it would start over --
once).

  It seems that partitions mount in alphabetical order.  My startup partition
is the second in alphabetical order, and the one before it is apparently
marked "bootable" somehow (probably because it had a system on it for awhile
while I was in transition from 6.0.5 to 7).  Therefore, the Mac tries booting
off that partition, finds no system, marks the partition temporarily
"unbootable", and starts over.

  I solved the problem by renaming by boot partition with a space in front of
it.  Now I get one start.  Very nice.  I did have to redo my aliases, though.
Oh, well, I only had about 10.

  Apparently, it's also possible to permanently mark the partition unbootable,
but since I may install a system there again sometime, I figured it'd be
easier to just rename it.

Thanks for all the suggestions,
--Mike