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Re: Using bootblocks on Blizzard 1260



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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