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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fast non-autoboot
Message-ID: <13361@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 18:05:14 GMT
References: <5730@hoptoad.uucp> <9832@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <9832@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>All the other magic (like SetPatch, mounting the other HD partitions,
>etc) comes from s:startup-sequence.  The official CBM line is "we
>can't be responsible for the stability of your system if you don't
>make SetPatch the **FIRST** thing in your startup" but SetPatch
>doesn't FIX any of the things we do here (in the first 4 lines of the
>startup-sequence) so make it the first thing you do in your harddisk
>startup.

That's ok.  SetPatch isn't even the first thing in C-A's distribution
s:startup-sequence.  Pretty silly to say that, then break your own
rules.


>Assuming you had to have BindDrivers, and your non-FFS partition is
>called SLOW: your new startup sequence could be:

>BindDrivers
>DefDisk SLOW:
 ^^^^^^^
You can make that "SLOW:C/DefDisk SLOW:" and save another couple
seconds--read it off the hard disk, not the floppy.
>Assign T: RAM:
>Execute S:Startup-Sequence		; customized startup


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