| From: | xbj@lvdi.net |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 01:28:35 |
| Subject: | Re: AOS35: Re: HD Toolbox probs |
Thanks Jean-Pierre... appreciate all the help!
I may have a way to do it... will report later.
But has anyone else noticed that the amiga.com
domain name had been down since early last
evening? E-mails sent to that list bounce and
and you can't access it from the web either.
Les
On 15-Aug-00, Jean-Pierre Sola wrote:
>Hello xbj@lvdi.net
>On 15-ao�t-00, xbj@lvdi.net wrote:
>> But.... I can't set any mount or boot flags no
>> matter how I try... I can only get the partitions to
>> mount by putting mount commands in my s:user-startup
>> file and when I disable my old boot partition
>> on the other disk and reboot, nothing happens; dead, dead,
>> dead (thank God for the emergency disk!).
>Yes, a few weeks ago I met the same problem. Funnily the HDToolbox
>from OS3.5 (BB1) was able to switch the flag from automount to not
>automount, but not to revert it back to automount.
>I solved that by using the OS3.1 HDToolbox. You should be able to use
>it as long as you don't have partitions greater than 2GB. (My HD is
>7.8 GB)
>Or you could try HDInstTool or RDPrepX ...or wait for BB2...
>Experiment... you have nothing to loose, as I understand it, and share
>what you discover with us:-)
>> So what the heck can I use to get the new partition
>> to boot? And what can I use to get the other partitions
>> to automount? (I'm sure this is a related problem
>> and the problem is with HDToolbox.)
>I suspect that one cannot boot from a not automounted partition.
>In the OS3.5 HDToolbox it is possible to check the autoboot option
>even if the automount option is not checked, but in the OS3.1
>version, it is not possible to do that.
>> Unfortunately, I need to use HDToolbox because
>> I need to change block sizes for audio partitions
>> and GVP ExpertPrep doesn't support this.
>Audio partitions... hemmm, so I suspect you want to have bigger than
>2GB partitions. :-/
>I remember an utility on Aminet to edit some options of the RDB, maybe
>is it editing the automount and autoboot flags??? But I do not
>remember its name, sorry :-(
>Kind regards.
>--
>