#: 12077 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    04-Sep-91  20:49:17
Sb: #startup blues
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: all

I just thought that I'd share a problem I had last night (actually, until the
wee hours of the morning!). I decided to create a new boot disk with some
modified modules. I used os9gen to create a new boot and copied the requesite
files. But the disk would not boot!

It would hang, it seemed, in the middle of the startup file. To make a long
story short: I had the following line in my startup file

  copy file1 file2 file3 -w=/r0 >>>/nil

The redirect is there so that I don't get copy's messages on every boot. The
problem is that file2 and file3 were not on the disk. Copy then printed a
'continue' prompt to 'nil' and then waited for a response. I really don't know
where it expected the response to come from (either the startup file itself or
nil) but it never got it and hung.

Moral: make sure all the files are there!

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