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From: Patrick@ark.cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: booting off a hard disk.
Message-ID: <885@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 08:49:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ark.885
Posted: Tue Jan 20 08:49:27 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 02:14:13 EST
References: <942@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <4730003@hpvcla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: Patrick@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Summary: Yes, it is possible

In article <4730003@hpvcla.HP.COM> ericr@hpvcla.HP.COM (Eric Ross) writes:
>It is indeed true that a floppy is required to boot a hard disc system for
>both the Atari and the Supra hard discs.  Supposedly, TOS has the hooks
>to boot off the hard disc, but nobody to this date has actually released
>the necessary boot image.
>
>Eric Ross
>ihnp4!hpfcla!hpvcla!ericr

Atari Benelux *has* supplied me with an INSTALL.PRG which makes the harddisk
auto-booting. My 1040 ST checks to see whether there's a disk in the 3,5 inch
drive, and then proceeds to the harddisk. There it loads programs from
the auto folder on drive C: (providing, ofcourse, there wasn't a disk
in the 3,5 inch diskdrive). If appreciated, I can post this program
(if no copyright infringements occur), but Neil and Alan are free to
do similar thing also :)

As far as the 40-folder limit is concerned: a couple of weeks ago I sent
Alan Pratt the program Atari Benelux (Benelux, BTW, stands for Belgium,
Netherlands, Luxembourg) distributes with the comment that it prevents
the 40-folder trouble. And my harddisk contained more than 85 folders
without problems (Russian roulette in Alan's opinion - maybe I was lucky).
The guy at Atari Benelux said this program patches Gem. I'm a layman, so
I just used that program.~r Does Alan have any comments on that patch
utility yet?