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From: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Faster Bootup (was: Suggestion for 1.4)
Summary: Don't LoadWB from your DH0:S/Startup-Sequence
Message-ID: <1249@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 20:47:34 GMT
References: <611@myrias.UUCP> <62300007@hobbiton> <56624@sun.uucp> <2425@amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: swalton@solar.stanford.edu (Stephen R. Walton)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <2425@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
> [other ideas about speeding up booting deleted]
>    [under V1.2]:
>
>    Since Execute doesn't use T: for it's temp file, it might
>    use SYS:T.  In that case, assign sys: before you run your
>    hard disk script.
>
>    If I'm wrong on that, it uses :T, so cd to your fast disk
>    before executing the hard disk script.

Yes, 1.2 Execute always uses :T for its temporary.  However, there is
a real problem with doing this, as I found out: it results in a very
slow revalidation of your entire hard disk if your Startup-Sequence
does a LoadWB.  I can email the details (or you can read 'em on B$X),
but briefly, if you do something like:

assign (everything to dh0:)
cd dh0:
execute s:Startup-Sequence

on your boot floppy, Don't Put LoadWB In The DH0: Startup-Sequence.
Put it in the one on the floppy or do it by hand after bootup.

Stephen Walton, representing myself		swalton@solar.stanford.edu
Cal State, Northridge				rckg01m@calstate.BITNET