small booting problem (Help!)

David W. Berry dwb at Apple.COM
Tue Nov 15 08:22:37 AEST 1988


In article <3570 at crash.cts.com> andym at crash.CTS.COM (Andy Micone) writes:
>
>We have a MacII with two hard drives, an internal 100meg at SCSI ID 2, 
>and the external one with A/UX at SCSI ID 5.  In the MacOs I've set it
>up so that the 100meg internal is the startup device, rather than the
>A/UX external.  My problem is that the internal disk will only be the
>startup device on a restart, not on a powerup, probably due to the fact
>the SCSI starts with the higher scsi numbers and works down. Is there
>any way through software to get the Mac NOT to boot up on the A/UX disk
>on powerup?  It's not a problem for me to restart, but many people on
>my staff are not extremely computer literate, and I can't be there all
>the time.
	Using the Control Panel's Startup Device you can set any volume
to be the boot volume.
>
>andym at crash.CTS.COM
>UUCP: ucsd!crash!andym




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David W. Berry
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