CompuServe Messages

Bob: Thanks for the response. Your instructions seem clear enough, but it doesn't work. On booting the light on the drive indicates that it's reading something from the hard drive. Then it just settles into a graphic presentation showing the floppy disk being inserted. The Dataflyer users manual says that "The autobooting function will work only with a Kickstart 1.3 in the A500 or A2000." Might it not be backward–compatible? The Users Manual shows a jumper 1.3 for configuration, normally present. Another area of confusion arises from the difference in fastfilesystem treatment per your instructions, and the following from the Amiga Users' Guide: (p2-13) FFS in ROM. "The fact that the FastFileSystem is now in ROM, rather than a handler in the L: directory, has important implications for those upgrading to Release 2 from a 1.3 system. For the ROM filesystem to operate, references to L:fastfilesystem should not be made." It goes on to give instruction on deleting lines that refer to "L:fastfilesystem" or "globvec=-1" from mountlists and RigidDiskBlocks. By the way, he's using just one disk partition, and I'm reasonably sure he didn't re-format the hard drive. with the 2.0. This seems a lot harder than working with my IBM.