| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 25 Jul 2001 at 12:53:29 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: peculiar, perplexing problem |
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By: Alexander Niven-Jenkins <anj@cremlinsoftware.org>
To: Michael Habermann <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Wednesday, July 25, 2001, 3:57:31 AM
Re: [D5] Re: peculiar, perplexing problem
Hi Alexander,
MH>> Any ideas? Is this hardware, software?
MH>>
MH>> Is this related? After CTRL AMIGA AMIGA sometimes computer boots to
MH>> the 1> prompt, which is totally useless. So sometimes it takes a
MH>> whole bunch of reboots to get my dear Amiga to startup the way it
MH>> used to.
ANJ> It almost sounds as though two or more are and for whatever reason
ANJ> your normal system drive isn't being recognised first (priorities
ANJ> wrongly set) so it is booting off the 2nd parition which doesn't have
ANJ> a startup-sequence so it just boots into DOS.
Or more than one drive, and one of them takes longer to get ready than the
rest. Maybe even an inadequate power supply, which suffers under the
strain of a drive spin-up.
ANJ> If only the PC could do that :-)
If only. Stupid system. Ooh, but how I'd love to be able to run the
Amiga OS directly on that hardware, bypass all the annoying designs of
Windows.
Windows - a half-arsed implementation of standards, a completely arsed
example of Microsoft programming ability.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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