OS3.9 Icon Snapshoting

[lorddef]

This is driving me mad, so I've decided to ask you guys to see if you can shed any light on it.

I have an install of OS3.9 using a voodoo3 in 1024x786 and I have 9 hd partitions. I snapshot them in one big line from the top of the screen to the botom. Then I reboot and they only display in a line down to what I can only assume is the point where a 320x256 display would be. Ie no mater where snapshoted Icons will only display in the correct place if they are snapshotted in the 320x256 area.

Now if I reboot by my Emergency partition, which has a slightly older install (very slightly) and all the icons appear in the correct places. So they are definately snapshotting correctly.

This means that the problem has to be something to do with the icons being positioned at bootup, but I haven't a clue why.

I've checked for programs that might draw up a 320x256 screenmode in the bootup process, found nothing.

My startup script on the emergency partition is exactly the same as the one on my main partition.

This is driving me mad. Does anyone have any clues?

[lorddef]

yeah the ram disk icon is at the top. then I get the first 3 drives, then the next four on a column to the right, then the next 3 in the next column to the right.

If I reboot from the emergency partition they all lign up in one column

[lorddef]

Well amiga.org died on me last night when I was aking this question. So anybody got any ideas?

[lorddef]

anyone have a similar problem?

[lorddef]

@framiga

No, by emargency partition I mean a bog standard hd partition with a clone of my workbench partition on it.

No hidden partitions.

[lorddef]

@Herewegoagain

Sometimes workbench can be mega strange!

[lorddef]

So I've just copied my entire workbench bartition to my Emergency partition. So now bot partitions have exactly the same files on them. I boot up from the Emergency partition and all the Icons line up okay, then I boot up from the workbench partition and its all screwed up!

So it has to be something to do with the ways the disks are formatted!!!!
 
Both partitions are formatted with the same filesystem (ffs v45.13) and the only difference is that my workbench disk is 500meg and the emaegency one is 2gig.

Any ideas people?

This is weird, how can a filesystem/partition affect the way icons are placed at boot-up?

[lorddef]

Yeah I've tried it.