Boot priority race FloppyEmu vs BlueSCSI

[Mu0n]

This case scenario happened this morning on my Mac Classic.

It has an internal BlueSCSI it will boot from fairly quickly as most users of it are aware.

I also had a game dsk inside my floppyemu which has custom fonts installed which is the basis for its graphics (Déjà Vu tile game from Rubicon).

Needless to say, I can't work the buttons fast enough on my floppyemu to set the right disk img fast enough that I'm already in the System 6.0.x of the BlueSCSI.

All this can be remedied by using a physical diskette which I'm fortunate to still have but that's beside the point. What solution do you recommend here? My bluescsi is inside the case and it'd be annoying to disconnect it for this use case every time.

I don't want to bloat the regular system folders I have across my bluescsi virtual hard disks.

 

[eric]

For this case I usually use System Picker and just have multiple system folders on one drive and switch between them. I dont have a system 6 machine handy but I thought in the Special menu it allowed for setting the startup disk - could you boot, mount the disk, select the disk as the startup one and restart?

 

[Mu0n]

Yes, I use the System picker abundantly in the first volume that I probably got from the example rascsi drives. However, I wasn' t able to make what's probably System 4.2 needed for this game (or even less!). Is there a limit to the oldness of the Systems supported by it?

I tried rapidly to remember how to bless a System Folder, I put it on the background in the desktop (from the copied contents of the game disk on my bluescsi), and put it back, it didn't change its appearance, but I was on System 6.0.7 while I did that step. I could try reading instructions when I have time to retry later..

 

[Mu0n]

I was able to make it work through perseverance and I'm not sure I'd be able to repeat this easily.

Attempt #1, bless and rebless a folder in a hd/folder 1/system folder (2 levels deep). After a reboot or 2, system picker finally lete select it. But it turns out it's a super ancient one with no easy system version, just says finder 1.1g!

Result: all my drives only show the top level root, can't access the game. Also, I can't rerun system picker. Can't boot from the classic rom disk because of a nondescript error. The floppyemu in HD mode saved me (a real disk probably would have as well) to break out of the cycle.

Attempt #2: after moving the game and its accompanying system folder to the root of a blueSCSI HD, blessing and releasing the folder and a handful of reboots, I can system pick it. Booting from it and launching the game, I just get a reboot, the game is self aware of its presence on a disk.

Attempt #3 after a few unnerving reboots, I manage to switch to floppy mode on my floppyemu. Then, I'm able to select the right disk fast enough. Everything works and the game boots fine with its system with custom installed graphical fonts, but it's a very inelegant solution.