| From: | Robert Cranley |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2001 at 02:57:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Help needed with OS3.9 installation |
Hi JOHN,
On 07-Aug-01, you wrote:
> The only slight problem now is the need to reboot the machine in order to
> give the CD drive enough time to power up when OS3.9 boots. Anybody got
> any suggestions for how this can be resolved?
Does the machine reboot at SetPatch? What about putting a small delay before
SetPatch? That would give the CD-ROM time to power up, before the automatic
reset, saving you the trouble.
Other option, one which I have to use because of dodgy-ness in the
4xEIDE.driver etc. is to use a cumbersome, ugly Startup-sequence which uses
a dummy file to determine whether this is its first boot or second in that
power on. It's horrible, and I'm not proud of it, but it works. It's
something like this:
;Cold boot
IF NOT EXISTS S:.dummy
C:Copy SYS:.dummy S: >NIL:
C:CheckLMB
IF WARN
SYS:Prefs/4xEIDEPrefs
ENDIF
C:4xEIDE.driver QUIET
C:SetPatch QUIET
EndIf
;Warm boot
IF EXISTS S:.dummy
C:SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" NONSD QUIET
C:Delete S:.dummy >NIL:
EndIf
You could adapt this to give a reset automatically with some sort of reboot
command instead of the 1st SetPatch, so every time the computer boots, it'll
reboot once automatically.
Anyone suggest a better way? Please? :)
Regards,
Rob
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