| From: | David Cox |
| Date: | 21 Mar 2001 at 11:25:58 |
| Subject: | Boing Bag 2 - problems solved . . . . . Almost!! |
Firstly thanks to Magnus Sjoberg and Jeff for their help. I've now managed to get BB2.x up and running from AACD18 and even my long suffering SurfSquirrel is still working.
In the end I plumped for Magnus' suggestion to move the mounting of SquirrelSCSI to the startup-sequence from user-startup, as Jeff's suggestion caused a "pregnant pause" in the A1200 boot-up.
Thank-you also to Alan Buxey, who was no help whatsoever, but who did remind me that none of this would be quite such a problem if I'd backed up my Workbench partition in the first place (and also for reminding me to register the remaining bits of shareware on my system).
Note to Alan: The installer even choked on an (almost) fresh install of OS3.5+BB1, the only extras running were the SurfSquirrel install, Fblit and WBcontrol (both included in the BB1 distro) - the MoBo is a 1D1 revision (that I'd had no problems with previously) and the accellerator a Blizzard 1240 W. 16Mb fast RAM. Admittedly not a vanilla A1200 setup, but not wild and whacky by any means.
I do however have issues with H&P on this. Why did the installer choke on the SurfSquirrel setup, many of these units were sold (more than the Blizzard SCSI module) and it still seems to be in common use. I don't see why I had to move the mount command like I did, since it compromises the security (as in rleiability) of the startup-sequence. I was always told to use the user-startup whenever possible, which is something I try and do (despite having FBlit and WBcontrol on my system).
BTW. What does BB2 *actually* fix. I haven't noticed any difference since installing it (I had no problems before tho')
And lastly, now BB2 is working, all of a sudden CrossDOS appears to be broken - in that I now cannot read any PC formatted 720kb Floppies. Even ones that I *could* read a day before doing the upgrade!!
Does BB2 break CrossDOS? If so then I for one will probably regress back to BB1 . . . .
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David A Cox
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