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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 and Supra driver
Message-ID: <5884@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 90 17:36:55 GMT
References: <2248@kodak.UUCP> <4570@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
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In article <4570@helios.ee.lbl.gov> keithj@ux1.lbl.gov (Keith J Groves) writes:
>I experienced the same symptom with my Supra 20 drive and have since
>discovered that it is a feature of TOS 1.4 that prevents one from
>booting off the internal floppy while the Supra autoboot feature is
>installed.  I just boot my ST first and then my hard drive and run the
>Supboot program.
>
>                             Keith Groves

Wait until the floppy drive light goes on, and THEN hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift.  This
will override the hard drive boot and boot off the floppy.

This was also the same with TOS 1.2.  It holds true for ICD software as well.

(wonder if my .sig file will work)