8bitbubsy
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I tried to reinstall the driver map (the thing before the main partition) on my SE/30's original HDD using Apple HD SC Setup, and somehow it failed. I tried to restart the system, but now I get a 0000000F 00000003 sad mac whenever it tries to boot from the HDD.
My guess is that the driver/boot thingie on the HDD is ruined, and the CPU tries to execute it and it enters an exception.
Problem is, it doesn't try to boot from floppy before this happens, so I can't boot a system disk and fix it!
Is there any hotkey for forcing floppy boot before checking the HDD driver on boot or so? This is a quite annoying situation!
EDIT: I fixed it!
I opened the SE/30 and disconnected the power molex from the HDD, then I booted from the 6.0.8 floppy, then connected the molex back in, ran Apple HD SC Setup and ran "Initialize". When it was done, I ran "Update" to reinstall the driver map. This worked, I get the question mark floppy disk when rebooting the system. Time to install 6.0.8! :b&w:
My guess is that the driver/boot thingie on the HDD is ruined, and the CPU tries to execute it and it enters an exception.
Problem is, it doesn't try to boot from floppy before this happens, so I can't boot a system disk and fix it!
Is there any hotkey for forcing floppy boot before checking the HDD driver on boot or so? This is a quite annoying situation!
EDIT: I fixed it!
I opened the SE/30 and disconnected the power molex from the HDD, then I booted from the 6.0.8 floppy, then connected the molex back in, ran Apple HD SC Setup and ran "Initialize". When it was done, I ran "Update" to reinstall the driver map. This worked, I get the question mark floppy disk when rebooting the system. Time to install 6.0.8! :b&w:
