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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Boot priority [Re: Hardframe experiences]
Message-ID: <790@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 07:06:38 GMT
References: <167@mothra.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <167@mothra.cs.utexas.edu> bryan@cs.utexas.edu writes:
>The only default I changed was to set the Hardframe boot priority at 5
>rather than the 0 default, so that the machine would boot from the
>hard disk even with a floppy inserted.  If you play games that require
>you to boot from a floppy then you won't want to do this.  I only
>buy games that will at least load from a hard disk, so I don't want
>to have to pop out the disk every time I apply the neck pinch.

I may be totally off-base here, but isn't this wrong?  My understanding
is that the boot priority will only affect WARM BOOTS, not booting
up from a power-on.  How can kickstart know, on a cold boot, what
priorities you have assigned in your mountlist?  So on a cold boot,
it would seem that the floppy drive would ALWAYS be looked at first.

I don't mind being told I'm wrong, but please tell me WHY I'm wrong.