Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Allow more control over disk ordering #332

Open
fulldecent opened this issue Aug 21, 2024 · 4 comments
Open

Allow more control over disk ordering #332

fulldecent opened this issue Aug 21, 2024 · 4 comments
Labels
enhancement New feature or request

Comments

@fulldecent
Copy link

I am trying to boot off of a floppy disk. I named it to .dsk and selected it using the Startup Disk utility. But then when doing restart it will not boot that disk.

This disk is bootable on original hardware.

The disk is a virus, so it is supposed to modify the files on Macintosh HD.

@mihaip
Copy link
Owner

mihaip commented Aug 21, 2024

Which machine/OS are you trying to use? If possible could you attach the floppy image here (you may need to compress it into a .zip first)?

@fulldecent
Copy link
Author

fulldecent commented Aug 27, 2024

Using 7.5 (and possibly 7.5.3)

Virus.dsk.zip

And as to that disk image I can only say "I found it on the internet" lol

The intended function of the "virus" is that if you boot the computer with the disk then it modifies the system drive and startup files on the normal "Macintosh HD". I understand that Infinite Mac might not allow edits to that startup disk. But at a minimum, it will be nice if can allow to set the startup disk and then restart to the other disk on boot.

@that-ben
Copy link

that-ben commented Aug 28, 2024

Actually, I would +1 this feature. As it is now, if you open the Startup control panel, all disks are highlighted and even if you change the boot disk in there, it does not save it to PRAM and upon reboot, it still boots from the InfiniteMac disk.

@mihaip
Copy link
Owner

mihaip commented Sep 1, 2024

I believe this is a known issue with Basilisk II:

The Startup Disk control panel is not functional in BasiliskII
BasiliskII will startup from the first bootable volume in the Volumes list. Trying to use the Startup Disk control panel may cause BasiliskII to crash.

Due to the way built-in disks, disk files and URL-based "CD-ROMs" are handled in Infinite Mac you don't have as much control over the volumes list (you can see the code that it lists them in that order). I'll keep this open as a feature requests.

@mihaip mihaip added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 1, 2024
@mihaip mihaip changed the title Loading to a boot disk Allow more control over disk ordering Sep 1, 2024
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants