The boot floppy used to startup from the CD-ROM is different from your MacPartition in three ways:
The extensions folder of the system folder contains a file "CD hack"
The disk level contains a A/UX startup document called "boot_CD"
The Preferences Booting dialog box in A/UX startup are configured:
- Automatically boot at startup, is selected.
- Autorecovery is set for "boot_cd -d" as custom command.
- Autolaunch is set for shutdown.
NOTE: The A/UX installer startup is slightly different than the A/UX startup application, however, A/UX startup does support booting from CD-ROM.
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