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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spinning disk HD boot
Message-ID: <1770@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 03:12:59 GMT
References: <593@ihnet.ATT.COM> <173@actisb.UUCP>
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Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
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Keywords: Spinning

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. It doesn't care whether there's
>a diskette on drive A: or whatever.

DCFormat has an option to write a "hard disk override" boot sector to a
floppy.  Usually the floppy boot code essentially passes control over to
the DMA booter.

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>DISCLAIMER: I actually don't need any, but I didn't want to dissapoint you.

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