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Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:41 am
by thomasrapp
The script is not meant as a boot selector on startup. It is called from the currently running OS to select the partition you want to boot next. It does what the thread title says: it saves boot priorities. It does not (re)boot or change the current boot partition.
Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:14 am
by ancalimon
I have modified to script to suit my simple setup at the moment. I'm using iconx as defaulttool to launch it. I can't make it work though. Am I missing something?
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.key changebootpri
.def changebootpri C:changebootpri
set choice `requestchoice "BootSelector" "*nSelect boot drive*n" "WB39|OS41|Cancel"`
if $choice eq 0
skip quit
endif
if $choice eq 1 ; WB39
<changebootpri> >nil: ADH1 1 ; WB39
<changebootpri> >nil: DH0 0 ; OS41
set dev "ADH1 / WB39"
skip done
endif
if $choice eq 2 ; OS41
<changebootpri> >nil: ADH1 0 ; WB39
<changebootpri> >nil: DH0 1 ; OS41
set dev "DH0 / WB41"
skip done
endif
lab done
requestchoice >nil: "BootSelector" "Boot device set to $dev." "Ok"
lab quit
By the way, when I type .def in a shell I get ".def: Unknown command"
If I select WB39 or OS41 options after I'm presented with the choice window, I get a cli window titled IconX telling the following:
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: Unknown command
: Unknown command
: Unknown command
: Unknown command
And the BootSelector window appears saying: "Boot device set to $dev."
Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:59 am
by Amigo1
@ancalimon
.def is not a command intended to be typed in a shell.
Type "SET Echo ON" in a shell and try to start the script from a shell to find out more
other than that, I remember having had some issues with .def in scripts at some point in time after some updates of the OS. Scripts which used to work didn't. I am not in front of my Amiga and have no notes at hand, can't say if I solved it.
Cold reboot does help sometimes.
Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:17 pm
by thomasrapp
Try to remove the lines with .key and .def from the beginning of the script and replace all occurrences of <changebootpri> by C:ChangeBootPri.
Note: if you use C: as path, you have to put the program into ADH1:C and into DH0:C. I would prefer one common place like Work:Tools/ChangeBootPri
Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:09 pm
by ancalimon
@thomasrapp
I got this when I did as you say:
7.OS41:> set echo on
7.OS41:> execute switchos
execute switchos
set choice 2
if 2 eq 0
if 2 eq 1
if 2 eq 2
: Unknown command
7.OS41:>
Then I tried the old script again and it worked. :/ I unarchived the changebootpri command to C: again before trying though. I have no idea what was causing the problem. Now I will try again with OS3.9
Re: Save partition priorities in early startup
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:21 pm
by thomasrapp
Well, I used cut & paste to copy the script from your above post into an editor on my OS 4.1 machine and it ran at the first try. So you must be doing something wrong when editing the script.
Please try the attached version. Unpack it to RAM and run it by double click.