The thing is, the *configure boot option has no parameters to select a boot drive.stephen_usher wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:26 pm Looking at your settings you have 1 floppy and one IDE drive configured but no "Hard Drives" i.e. SCSI drives. It's also set to boot from drive 0, the IDE drive I think. Adding the SCSI "Hard Drive" may allow it to boot from there. I don't know what drive number that has though.
AFAIK you need two things to boot, the 'boot' option to be on and a hard drive to be set with opt 4,2 making it bootable.
Removing the SCSI drives from the equation I put the !BOOT folder into the root of the IDE drive and ran opt 4,2 on the drive having set the boot option. A couple of days ago, this worked and I was able to boot from the IDE drive and get all my customisations and drivers loaded at boot time. Then it stopped working as it had previously.
As I understand the boot sequence goes FDD, IDE then SCSI. If the FDD and IDE have no volumes set with opt 4,2 if the SCSI drives are then it will boot from SCSI. It's almost like the flag that says 'boot from IDE then SCSI' is being ignored, but I don't know why.
The SCIS drives do show on the 2nd page of *status, but the 'no hard drives' in the listing did have me confused too.