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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spinning disk HD boot
Keywords: Spinning
Message-ID: <4722@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 88 17:16:38 GMT
References: <593@ihnet.ATT.COM> <173@actisb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <173@actisb.UUCP>, federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes:
> Well, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my Mega just refuses to boot from
> floppy when the hard disk has a boot sector.
> This was pretty painful when I put a corrupted
> desk accessory on the root directory of this drive: there was no way to boot
> from diskette other than leaving the hard disk off, but then I was unable
> to delete the dreaded accessory that kept trashing the machine every time
> I left the disk on.

> 		Federico             //     //    "In dubio pro libido"

Federico (sic)  and others you may need to know:

If you boot your machine with the HDisk off and then manually run the AHDI
driver you get booted up from an alternative device and still have access to
the harddisk.  This is how you deal with the above problem.

Also, DESKTOP.INFO is written to the boot device.

--j.a.tainter