Subject: Re: Using bootblocks on Blizzard 1260
To: John <john@sixgirls.org>
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/09/2001 11:10:12
On Wed, 9 May 2001, John wrote:

> I've even tried to boot drives that work just fine on other systems, but
> they don't boot properly with the A1260.

Did you turn on "Custom boot code" in the partition table? If you didn't,
it will ignore the boot block and use a standard AmigaOS one (this is to
protect from dumb bootblock virii).

   Simon

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