| From: | Jean-Pierre Sola |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 20:36:29 |
| Subject: | Re: HD Toolbox probs |
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.