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From: lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2000HD questions!!
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Date: 31 Mar 89 01:56:24 GMT
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jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes:
>Well kiddies, its time for our weekly show and tell.  I'll show you what 
>I don't know and you can tell me how.
>
>1.  I cannot seem to get Prefs to switch to interlaced WB.  I select Prefs
>from the workbench window, observe that the interlace selector is set to
>NO, click on YES, then USE.  Prefs promptly goes away and nothing gets
>changed.  Re-selecting Pref shows the interlace selector is still NO.
>Then I try the same routine, but select SAVE.  It appears to save (the
>pointer goes to sleep momentarily).  To try it I re-boot and viola' -
>up comes workbench in NON-interlace.  Selecting Prefs from the Workbench
>again reveals (Yup, you guessed it) the interlace selector is NO.  But
>I could have sworn I had just saved it ON?  Obviously I am doing some
>thing not quite right here.  Does the HD boot-up ignore the WB Prefs?
>Even if it did, why wasn't the WB Prefs updated when I selected it and
>SAVEd it?
>
Jerry, even with booting from a hard disk (I am assuming you have the 1.3 roms
in your 2000HD), Preferences takes its configuration info initially from the
device it boots from. Enter an 'ASSIGN' command and look where the logical
device SYS: is assigned. 

Even money your startup-sequence has changed where SYS: now points to (note
the device name)...and it's not the BOOT volume. Thus, it's saving the Pref
info in the devs/system-configuration file on device SYS:.

Solution: very simple...copy the SYS:devs/system-configuration file to the
boot volume, and that should solve your problem.

I'm posting this since I just helped a person in my local Amiga who was
having the exact same problem and it's general enough for ALL to benefit.

Larry Greenwald

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