on 7/20/00 1:24 AM, Adam Russell at adam@rabbitfarm.com wrote:

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> Adam Russell wrote:
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>> Ok, I've tried many boot images (including the most recent ones with
>> 1.4.3_ALPHA and the 1.5 snapshot)as well as various bootvar settings and
>> nothing seems to get the machine to boot off the floppy.
>> I'm using bootvar 1.3 with boot-device fd:0
>> boot-comman boot
>> and          load-base 100000
>> all the rest are the default values. I need to set up a serial console
>> in order to view OF output which I have not done. The only indication I
>> get that the machine is doing anything is that I hear the disk being
>> read for awhile and then, I hesitate to even mention this, a slight
>> "clicking" sound. Then nothing.
>> I have also noticed that the machine reboots itself before starting to
>> read the floppy. I'm not sure if this is normal or not.
>> Does anyone have any advice?
>> Many Thanks,
>> Adam Russell
> > 
> I think I should clarify this. I, of course, reboot the machine to reboot
> off of the floppy. As it is starting up after this it reboots itself a
> second time.

When you boot the boot-floppy after being in the Mac OS it sort of boots
again and says "Resetting to change configuration" or something similar and
then starts booting the floppy.

You should hear some clicking from the drive for a good while, it takes a
while to boot.

You could give System Disk a try, it should enable the Screen output device.
It worked on my C600 & my C500 even though it says my machine is not
supported and System disk will not work.

cheers, 

Matthew