Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw
From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disk boot???
Message-ID: <105100042@datacube>
Date: 28 Dec 87 20:01:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw    Dec 28 15:01:00 1987


This morning, I wrote:

> uace0@uhnix2.UUCP writes:
>> The problem you have with holding down the alt-ctrl-shift may have to do with
>> WHEN you hold down the keys.  If you bootup with! the keys down, then it will
>> not work with the new ROMs.
>> Try turning on the machine (or resetting) wait a second, then hold down the
>> keys.  This should work.
>> Don't use GEMBOOT with th[e new ROMs, use foldrxxx.prg instead.

> So, let me see...  If there is a disk in the drive at power-on, the Supra
> boots *immediately*.  If I have the three keys down (diskette in drive),
> Supra still boots immedately.  Seems like I have to: turn machine on.  Wait
> about one second.  Push the three keys.  (Maybe wait for ST to go after the
> floppy drive again) Push diskette into drive while holding the keys down.
> What a pain!  I don't think it'll work, either.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I'm going to call Supra today and ask them if they have a boot program
> that is a little less zealous ;-)

I just got off the phone with a tech-support guy at Supra.  He tells me that
the scenario described above is exactly what I have to do; they cannot
program around it.

They say that the problem is in the "blitter" ROMs.  The keycode that is
made by ctrl-shift-alt isn't available to the Supra boot program as soon as
that program would really like it to be.  The boot program cannot detect
the key combo until much later in the boot, at which time the program is
just about to boot from the fixed disk anyway.

				Farrell T. Woods 

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