Boot priority.

[flaviosr]

Hi,

I will receive in a few days an'A2000 with broken DF0 and I do not have some now... but this A2000 has kick3.1.
I have tried righ now with my A1200 and it is possible to boot from DF1 but with a very low priority (-10). No problem if DF1: is the only bootable device, a problem if there is also a HD, for example.
Is it possible to change this priorities? I have only found out the possibility to disable the device... but then it's really disabled, not only for boot matters!
Does this trick work for all kick3.1 in all Amigas...?

Ciao and thank you

[Rivkid]

Can you not simply swap the drives around so that DF0 is working and DF1 is the faulty one? Thats what I had to do with mine until I got them both working.

[AmiDude]

@flaviosr

Run HDToolbox and set the BootPriority of the harddisk boot partition to 127. That should do the trick.

[Quixote]

;-) If you hold down both mouse buttons at boot, you can access an early start menu that will allow you to boot from any mounted bootable drive, without regard to priority.  Of course, you'll have to do this every time you boot.

The software used to format your hard drive will also allow you to set each partition's priority, I seem to recall.  You could theoretically set HD0: to a priority lower than DF1:'s -10.

Mind you, make sure you back everything up first, just in case.

[Piru]

While you can relatively easily boot from any floppy drive, many games and demos only can continue the loading from DF0, and thus fail.

For best results I'd suggest repairing/replacing the floppy drive, or using some hw bootselector that swaps DF0 and DF1.