How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?

[garyg]

I have two SCSI hard drives in my OS 3.9 A4000D

The boot partition (Workbench) is on a 38-year-old (!) Seagate HD.

Since it could fail at any time I'd like to make the cloned Workbench
partition on my 2 Gb HD that's in the machine bootable. Presently, it's not.

I thought I could just change something in its icon but "bootable" isn't an option there.

The Early Startup Screen doesn't show it as bootable, and thus it can't be changed to become bootable.

So it looks like I'll have to use a HDTookbox (I've got the original plus a Cyberstorm HD Toolbox) to
change the boot status. Can someone walk me through this so I don't erase something?

Regards,
Gary

[garyg]

Unfortunately, HDToolbox reports is cannot do anything with the drive, apparently
because it's connected to the CyberSCSI controller.

The latter doesn't offer an option to make it bootable. The website will not allow
me to upload a good-quality image

Regards,
Gary

[garyg]

When I click on the drive a pop-up says "Sorry, this type of device cannot be handled by HDToolbox".

I took pictures of responses when I tried to use HDToolBox and HDToolBox_Cyberstorm_II and
uploaded them in my response, but they were erased by the website and rejected when I downsized
the images and tried again.

[garyg]

For now I can tell you that my original 730 MB Seagate SCSI Lightning drive is
on the bus. I'll try to attach an image, but don't know if the website will allow it

[garyg]

Thanks! I got this:

Q:   What are the valid tooltypes for HDToolBox?
A:   
The complete list of tooltypes for HDToolBox are as follows:

ASKDEVICE=YES ("TRUE" or left blank is also valid; or "NO")
DEVICE=devicename (name of device)
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=devicename (same as DEVICE; may be used for compatibility reasons)
WIDESCSI (set this for wide SCSI adapters; arguments same as "ASKDEVICE" tooltype)
MFSAVEPATH=pathname (where to save mount files and filesystems to; defaults to SYS:)

[Jochen Becher]

from http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/undocumented.html#6

For some reason my photo of my HDToolBox tool types didn't make it to my inbox. I'll try again later

[garyg]

from: http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/undocumented.html#6

Here's Jochen's contribution:

Q:   What are the valid tooltypes for HDToolBox?
A:   
The complete list of tooltypes for HDToolBox are as follows:

ASKDEVICE=YES ("TRUE" or left blank is also valid; or "NO")
DEVICE=devicename (name of device)
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=devicename (same as DEVICE; may be used for compatibility reasons)
WIDESCSI (set this for wide SCSI adapters; arguments same as "ASKDEVICE" tooltype)
MFSAVEPATH=pathname (where to save mount files and filesystems to; defaults to SYS:)

[Jochen Becher]

A screen shot of my HD ToolBox tooltypesis attached

[garyg]

I do have an internal CD-ROM (not presently working).

I'll check.

[garyg]

Would screenshots of SCSIInfo help?

What I see is:

the CD-ROM drive is unit 6 on cybscsi.device
the 730 MB SCSI HD is unit 0 on cybscsi.device
there's a drive at unit 0 on scsi.device

[garyg]

from SCSI Info

[garyg]

So says SCSI Info (WHD0: is the 2 GB SCSI drive whose first partition I'm trying to make bootable)

[garyg]

Well, I have two tools (actually three, one for my Emplant partition)
in my Tools Directory: HDToolBox and HDCyberstorm II Toolbox.

What result I get depends on which I choose.

[garyg]

THANK YOU Matt_H and others who contributed! Problem solved!

It was hard at first to find the "bootable" box to check, but I checked it
and confirmed that it was bootable by selecting it in the Early Startup Screen.

Now to adjust the user-startup on that HD's boot partition so that the
desktop looks like the usual one I see.