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From: thomas@dartvax.UUCP (Thomas Summerall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II HD$) Problems...WEIRD...
Message-ID: <7369@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 11:43:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.7369
Posted: Tue Oct 13 11:43:16 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 21:01:52 EDT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: Ohhh!   Mac II Owners Beware!

My New Mac II wouldn't boot from the hard disk but it would do everything else:

I FOUND THE PROBLEM!

As I said before, when booting I would get almost to the finder, then system
error ID=01 would show up.  It turns out that after reformatting the drive
it would work until a certain number of programs/data were uploaded.  So
today I reformatted and uploaded one at a time to find the culprit.

And here is the lineup, judge them as you will:

BeepInit and SoundInit

"Recognize either of these fellows, ma'am..." :)

They are public domain INITs from BCS.  Whatever you do, don't put them in the
system folder of a Mac II boot disk, hard or floppy.  They don't work.  I
didn't realize that they were the same kind of INITs that the Mac II uses
automatically, even if you don't install them with a resource editor.

So, as the emperor said in "Amadeus,"

"There it is..."

Thanks a lot to everyone who sent advice!

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thomas@dartvax * thomas%u2%dartmouth%csnet-relay.arpa  |  Thomas Summerall '88
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"And all that the Lorax left here in this mess,        |  Dartmouth College
 Was a small pile of rocks, with one word: UNLESS"     |  Hanover, NH    03755
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