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- From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston)
- Subject: Re: My LC II won't boot under System 6!? :(
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- References: <1992Aug12.205713.15900@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:51:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.205713.15900@m.cs.uiuc.edu>,
- spence@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Spence) wrote:
-
- > This may be a commonly known problem, I'm not sure. I have for the past
- > severl months swapped between system 7.01 and 6.08 by booting off a
- > 6.08 disk. I recently tried out the shareware product system-switcher and
- > encountered some buggy operations such as unwillingness to bless the 6.08
- > folder. I deleted the program and....
- > Now my LC II gives me a system error whenever I try to boot off a 6.08
- > or 6.07 floppy! The error occurs right after multifinder puts the disk icon
- > on the desktop.
-
- Some of these system-switching products do ugly things to the system and/or
- disk to make the un-blessed systems not visible. One of them changed the
- system file's creator (or filetype, I don't remember) from uppercase ZSYS
- to lower case zsys etc.
-
- A side effect of this change is that moving system from folder to folder
- no longer updates the boot blocks, since it doesn't look like a system
- anymore.
-
- If you throw away the system switcher then it just doesn't work right.
- I eventually had to reinstall all my systems to get rid of whatever changes
- the system switcher performed.
-
- I now consider these products extremo bad luck, and I'm back to manually
- hiding "system" in a subfolder of the respective system folder on all the
- currently unblessed systems...
-
- zben@ni.umd.edu -KA3ZDF
-