My test proved to me that, to boot either ProDOS or GS/OS, the program
"PRODOS" needs only to be in the first ProDOS partition, not the first
partition.
Willi
Which makes sense and still proves everyone's point, Willi. :) The //e
doesn't know anything about non-ProDOS or DOS 3.3 volumes, so it did what
it would do if there wasn't a disk in a drive--start hunting down the
"slots" until it found a boot device. Since your first couple of
partitions were HFS(?), it kept going until it recognized something it
understood.
However, had you had a disk in a drive with no ProDOS system on it, and it
was mapped higher than the ProDOS partition you probably would have gotten
an error message that the disk wasn't bootable, or somesuch. For that
reason it's best to have the HD's partitioned so the 1st is the ProDOS and
the system would immediately find and boot from it (assuming of course
that there's an OS on it. :) )
Later.................Howard
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