Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!cbmvax!erickson
From: erickson@cbmvax.UUCP (Lee Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A HD controller review
Summary: Some controllers CAN autoboot from HD with all FFS partitions
Keywords: AUTOBOOT, FFS
Message-ID: <5131@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 16:25:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.5131
References: <8810271754.AA14920@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: erickson@cbmvax.UUCP (Lee Erickson)
Organization: The Reohr Group
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In article <8810271754.AA14920@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>:Okay, I've seen enough people say something of this sort, and the 1.3
>:Enhancer manual says something like this too, that the first partition
>:on the drive must be the old filesystem.  Now, is this really true for
>:all cases or is it only true for the A2090?
>
>	If you want to autoboot and have a controller that can autoboot,
>but also want to run the FFS on your HD, then your setup must be that the
>first partition on the HD is under the old file system (OFS).

It is NOT necessary to have a partition with the "old file system" on it
to autoboot IF you have a controller that takes advantage of Commodore's
new "standard" way of storing the filesystems on the disk.  I believe I saw this
mentioned on the net previously.
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