Re: VirtualRPC fails to boot from HardDisk4

On 31 Dec 2005 John Rickman <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My brother's virtualacorn virtualrpc-se wont execute !boot on
> harddisk4 on startup.
> It is set as bootable in the tools options.
>
> I have tried the *opt 4,2 and configure boot etc but to no avail.
> (I can force a semi boot by running utils.bootvars and utils.bootrun)
>
> any help would be appreciated.

Check that !Boot.!Run is present, set to type Obey and its contents are
sensible.

Last time I installed VRPC for some reason it decided that obey files had an
..oby instead of ,feb extension, so from RISC OS all the obey files where of
type text with /oby on the end, which I had to fix before anything would run.

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