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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST? -problems
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 14:35:57 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
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- >>I thought all you guys might be interested to know that the runback command
- >>in the FastBootV1_0.lha archive is infected with the "Happy New Year 96"
- >>link virus. VirusZ will remove it.
-
- >Whilst fastboot does what it says it does, I'm not currently using it for
- >these reasons:
-
- >1) the diskchange command doesnt seem to work when using runback (even other
- >versions of runback..) ..see below
-
- >2) when diskchange works ...it basically makes my system useless due to
- >assigns/paths used by workbench...
-
- >I suppose I could fastbootgrab before wb loads , but this will slow the
- >process down which defeats the object!
-
- >Am I right in thinking that if diskchange isnt run directly after a
- >"fastboot" boot up, then your HD is in mortal danger the next time you write
- >to it?
- Correct.
-
- >(I'm assuming this for safety although I have full backups so all that would
- >be lost in worst case is 3 hours waiting...)
-
- > I might have a go at grabbing earlier in my startup....
-
- I have insalled it on about 20 systems, and never got problems with
- diskchange. Maby you did something wrong. Anyway, Send me a bug report
- with a copy of all the scripts, and tell me about your OS/HW etc.
-
- BTW, try removing everything exept loadwb, assign ENV/T etc., iprefs and such,
- and check if it works correctly. If so, try adding one line to the startup-
- sequence each time you boot.
-
- Programs that could/will have problems with fastboot:
-
- 1. Programs that use the MMU.
- 2. Programs that bangs the hardware. (Reads/Writes HW registers manualy from
- the program itself.)
- 3. Programs that uses memory not allocated. (Common bug.)
-
- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
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