boot image?

[scroll1]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can tell me what this icon means.

I have a 1040STE 1MB ram and this image appears at a boot screen just before going to the desktop. Once it starts it seems to run fine. it displays for a few seconds.

any help explaining what the icon means would be helpful.

thanks,

Wayne

[Tillek]

Do you have a disk in the drive when booting? Not something I've ever seen or heard of from TOS.

[David Baldwin]

maybe its a old boot virus joke look for something that might say cockroach in startup or something.

[ParanoidLittleMan]

It could mean: no bug - what could be actually message that no virus in bootsector.

Post image of that floppy, pls.

[scroll1]

Thanks for the replies. I haven't had s chance to get back in front of the machine. The boot disk is a copy of the U.K. Language disk. I formatted a new disk and then made a copy because the original disk was starting to give me errors. I'll check the all the disks and even try booting with a formatted blank disk in the drive to see if the symbol still appears and post my findings over the next few days.

cheers,

Wayne

[scroll1]

Hi,

I've attached a .st image of the Language disk.

I hope it helps, I'm not sure how to look for hidden files on the disk. ... and I hope the imaging system worked it is contained within a zip file (I did it in a linux VM using dd )

cheers,

Wayne

UKLangDisk.zip

[ParanoidLittleMan]

I looked it - it's as expected bootsector code, in purpose to inform user that some virus was not installed there - then user will not see it anymore - because virus would overwrite it.

But ST image you posted boots not - bootsector checksum is not OK, it is $1235 instead $1234 . Maybe dd corrected something in bootsector ?

[scroll1]

Thanks Dragonstomper for the info ...

The original disk is giving me errors trying to read it in the machine, the copied disk was done on the atari. I found another UK language disk image online, but when I copied the image under linux using dd to a floppy, no of the files show up on the atari even though I can see them listed on the linux machine ...

In the end, I'm assuming that the boot sector virus checker is not a problem for me, so I guess I'll continue using it for the time being.

thanks for your help

[scroll1]

... actually, it seems I'm having trouble writing .st files back to floppies under Linux . The command seems to write the image file, and when I look at the contents of the disk under Linux all the files are there, but when I put the disk in the Atari it shows a blank disk, no files.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

 

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[ParanoidLittleMan]

Most likely floppy drives in your Atari and PC does not match - head align may differ.

I recommend to format floppy on Atari - to DS, and then copy files on it under Linux. That should be more reliable.

And some head cleaning of drives could help too.