Date   : Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:55:20 +0100 (GMT)
From   : Brian Widdas <brian@...>
Subject: Re: Some machines to resurrect

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Michael Foot wrote:

> 3 MASTERs
> 
> 2 of these have 3.5 inch drives fixed in the side of them and an extra
ROM fitted, ADFS 2.10. The other one is standard.
> 
> F TERMINAL 01
> E VIEW 04
> D ADFS 50
> C BASIC 04
> B EDIT 01
> A VIEWSHEET 02
> 9 DFS 79
> 8 ADFS 10
> 
> On boot up all I get is:
> 
> Acorn MOS
> ADFS
> 
> and then it hangs. How do I need to *CONFIGURE these machines so they
> will boot? Do I need to *UNPLUG the DFS and older ADFS?

Does it access the disk, or just sit and do nothing. ADFS usually mounts
the floppy in drive 0, or the hard disk, on boot, so if there's nothing in
there, or you don't have a drive, it'll hang.

Try booting with either the F (ADFS, no mount), D (DFS) or T (cassette)
key held down. If the problem is it trying to mount the disk, you can
configure it not to.

>From memory (and it's been a couple of years...)

*configure floppy      (mount floppy on boot - ADFS only)
*configure hard                (mount HD on boot - ADFS only)
*configure file <n>      (<n> = ROM number, in decimal, of filing system
                       you want to boot with. Tape is 15)
*configure nomount     (Not sure about this one)

*configure             (List all available config options)
*status                        (Show current config options)

Brian