path, assign and non-bootable harddrive

[koaftder]

I recently acquired a scsi controller for my a1k (thanks CharmFX!)

I'm running wb and ks 1.3

What I would like to do is have all of the assignments and paths point to the harddisk upon boot. I've modified the startupII file on my workbench to do this, but everything ends up getting overridden and pointing back to DF0: except for l, s, and sys

For some reason C, FONTS, DEVS, and LIBS assignment revert back to FD0: All of the path statement get overridden as well.

here is the relevant chunk in that startup file. What am i doing wrong?

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mount dh0:
list dh0:

assign sys: DH0:
assign s: DH0:s
assign l: DH0:l
assign e: DH0:e
assign fonts: DH0:fonts
assign devs: DH0:devs
assign libs: DH0:libs

path reset
path DH0:c add
path DH0:Utilities add
path DH0:System add
path DH0:s add
path DH0:Prefs add


[koaftder]

ok, I found a mistake in the listing, assign e: DH0:e, changed it to assign c: dh0:c and now all my assigns are the way they should be but the Path still gets reset on me.

[smoorke]

Don't use the add option when defining the first item of a new path. Also i'm pretty sure you don't need to reset the path if you define a new path.
So drop the 'path reset' and change 'path dh0:c add' into 'path dh0:c' and i think it should work.

[smoorke]

http://cataclysm.cx/random/amiga/reference/AmigaOS3.9_Manual/dos/book-main65.html
After reading this i'm not sure about my previous post.
But i'm also not sure why what you have now fails to work.
If what i posted before didn't work try replacing the lines 'path reset' and 'path dh0:c add' by just 'path reset dh0:c'
Actually i'm just guessing here and i'm too lazy/tired to  test this myself.