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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Demos vs. HD
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 18:39:57 GMT
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- On 30 Mar 1996 07:30:23 GMT, Beakman's Secret Identity articulated:
- <> Just wondering if anyone knows of a way (preferably in software, though
- <> hardware would work), of disabling the hard drive from booting?
- <>
- <> I have quite a few demos that REFUSE to boot in PAL mode unless it sees
- <> the "Insert Workbench" disk animation/screen (3.0). Before I had the hard
- <> drive working (BTW thanks to many people here for that), I had no
- <> problems running the demos. Then with the hard drive, I can't get to that
- <> screen, and these refuse to switch completely. (Some examples are
- <> Spaceballs' 9 Fingers and Faculty's Lethal Dose...)
- <>
- <> As such, I can't run them anymore.
- <>
- <> And I REALLY don't want to start ripping the internal hard drive out each
- <> time I want to run the demos.
- <>
- <> I was considering trying to splice the power line to the HD into a
- <> switch, but I wanted to check if there was a better way before I started
- <> doing any heavy modifications. :p
-
- Use the Early Startup Menu to disable the hard drive
- partition(s) each time you want to boot from a floppy.
-
- You could also put a nonbootable disk in df0: and this
- should cause the "Insert Workbench" screen to come up upon a
- reset.
-
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