Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!percival!parsely!agora!billsey From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Booting from a Supra Hard Drive... Message-ID: <1509@agora.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 89 04:31:29 GMT References: <802@ivucsb.sba.ca.us: Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 37 From article <802@ivucsb.sba.ca.us:, by dan@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Dan Howell): : I have an A1000 with a Supra SCSI interface and a Seagate 20MB drive. : I would like to know if there is some way to boot from this drive. : I currently have to use a kickstart AND a workbench boot disk which : has the SupraMount in the startup-sequence, which transfers control : to the hard drive. Alas, there's no autoboot option for the Supra A1000 SCSI interface... You can do the warmboot from RAD: thing though and make those boots much faster... On my 1000, I have the Kickstart installed in ROM (1.3) and only use the floppy for cold boots. (Note that I cold boot *very* rarely... As in only when the power goes out! The monitor and HD get powered down each evening, but the CPU stays up.) : I wanted to use kickbench, but it has no 1.3 patches. Do these exist. There were a couple of different versions of the Kickbench type posted here a couple of months ago... I'm afraid I didn't save any, but I'm sure there are others who did. : Also, is there any reason to have a small OFS partition on this drive, or : should I go ahead and repartition the drive to have nothing but one large : FFS 20MB partition? Not on the 1000. Go ahead and set it up with everything FFS. The only reason they had that six cylinder OFS partition was because of the older autoboot routines for the 2000. : -- : -- Dan Howell