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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hard Disk won't boot
Message-ID: <6715@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 89 14:56:39 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <412@rna.UUCP> marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson) writes:
>Well, I seem to have no problems accessing any files on the disk, but I can't
>boot from it.  Upon booting, the Mac gives me the "?" disk icon, and tries
>again and again.  It will boot from a floppy, and the hard drive is there and
>all is well--just no boot.

If you boot from a system 6.0.2 floppy, does the system folder have the
little Mac icon inside of it?  This shows the "blessed folder" which the
system uses to boot.  If it does have the little Mac showing, I'm stumped.
If it doesn't, try dragging the System file out of the system folder to
the top level of the disk, then dragging it back into the system folder.
That ought to make the Finder designate that folder as blessed, so you
will then be able to boot from it.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"The men promise to provide unconditionally for their wives.  The women in turn
serve unconditionally to provide the other household services necessary for the
men to fulfill their obligations to the women.  The women are satisfied because
they have the men working for THEM." -- Colin Jenkins, soc.women