Re: booting Lisa Xenix

Gilles' comment about boot device register values jogged my memory and I was able to locate a couple of notes...

• After installing on the hard drive, I found I had to cold-boot from the "startup from" menu using Apple-3, as Apple-1 always failed to load xenix (for me at least). Use Apple-3 even with a Lisa 2/10 (which shows the Widget as device 1).
• At the boot prompt, type pf(0,0)xenix to load from the hard drive

Hope this helps...

James

>>did anybody manage to boot Xenix directly from hard disk

>I think you can boot with a trick. something like breaking normal
>booting procedure and forcing profile boot. if you boot with default
>device some register is 0 and xenix boot code fails. If you force a
>real boot device register has another value.
>It's a bug between boot eprom and xenix boot code.

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