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I finally have my Apple //e booting from my SCSI2SD but I'm missing something regarding how ProDOS knows what program to 'startup'start when it boots. As

As I understand it, ProDOS will look for the first .SYSTEM.SYSTEM file and launch that, which seems simple enough. But

But what if you want to change a bad decision you made months ago? In my case, I was working from the newly released ProDOS 2.4.2 and copied over the files PRODOSPRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM BASIC.SYSTEM (and sure enough, I wind up at the basic prompt when I boot). But

But the Floppyfloppy disk I was working from seems to have QUIT.SYSTEMQUIT.SYSTEM as the first system file, and that disk boots into BITSY.BOOT -BITSY.BOOT, so I have to suppose that QUIT.SYSTEMQUIT.SYSTEM is redirecting the boot loader somehow. If

If I wanted to change my existing ProDOS disk to stop loading into BASIC.SYSTEMBASIC.SYSTEM and instead load into BITSY.BOOTBITSY.BOOT, how would I move the QUIT.SYSTEMQUIT.SYSTEM to appear before the existing BASIC.SYSTEMBASIC.SYSTEM? How

How does a user manipulate the order of the files to change which SYSTEM.SYSTEM file you want to currently use? I

I would be astounded if the answer is to "delete everything and add files in the correct order" -. I feel like I am missing something fundamental, but snooping around the web hasn't exactly been very informative. Would

Would someone kindly kickstartkick-start my brain please?

I finally have my Apple //e booting from my SCSI2SD but I'm missing something regarding how ProDOS knows what program to 'startup' when it boots. As I understand it, ProDOS will look for the first .SYSTEM file and launch that, which seems simple enough. But what if you want to change a bad decision you made months ago? In my case, I was working from the newly released ProDOS 2.4.2 and copied over the files PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM (and sure enough, I wind up at the basic prompt when I boot). But the Floppy disk I was working from seems to have QUIT.SYSTEM as the first system file, and that disk boots into BITSY.BOOT - so I have to suppose that QUIT.SYSTEM is redirecting the boot loader somehow. If I wanted to change my existing ProDOS disk to stop loading into BASIC.SYSTEM and instead load into BITSY.BOOT how would I move the QUIT.SYSTEM to appear before the existing BASIC.SYSTEM? How does a user manipulate the order of the files to change which SYSTEM file you want to currently use? I would be astounded if the answer is to "delete everything and add files in the correct order" - I feel like I am missing something fundamental, but snooping around the web hasn't exactly been very informative. Would someone kindly kickstart my brain please?

I finally have my Apple //e booting from my SCSI2SD but I'm missing something regarding how ProDOS knows what program to start when it boots.

As I understand it, ProDOS will look for the first .SYSTEM file and launch that, which seems simple enough.

But what if you want to change a bad decision you made months ago? In my case, I was working from the newly released ProDOS 2.4.2 and copied over the files PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM (and sure enough, I wind up at the basic prompt when I boot).

But the floppy disk I was working from seems to have QUIT.SYSTEM as the first system file, and that disk boots into BITSY.BOOT, so I have to suppose that QUIT.SYSTEM is redirecting the boot loader somehow.

If I wanted to change my existing ProDOS disk to stop loading into BASIC.SYSTEM and instead load into BITSY.BOOT, how would I move the QUIT.SYSTEM to appear before the existing BASIC.SYSTEM?

How does a user manipulate the order of the files to change which .SYSTEM file you want to currently use?

I would be astounded if the answer is to "delete everything and add files in the correct order". I feel like I am missing something fundamental, but snooping around the web hasn't exactly been very informative.

Would someone kindly kick-start my brain please?

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How to change what program Apple ProDOS 'starts' when booting

I finally have my Apple //e booting from my SCSI2SD but I'm missing something regarding how ProDOS knows what program to 'startup' when it boots. As I understand it, ProDOS will look for the first .SYSTEM file and launch that, which seems simple enough. But what if you want to change a bad decision you made months ago? In my case, I was working from the newly released ProDOS 2.4.2 and copied over the files PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM (and sure enough, I wind up at the basic prompt when I boot). But the Floppy disk I was working from seems to have QUIT.SYSTEM as the first system file, and that disk boots into BITSY.BOOT - so I have to suppose that QUIT.SYSTEM is redirecting the boot loader somehow. If I wanted to change my existing ProDOS disk to stop loading into BASIC.SYSTEM and instead load into BITSY.BOOT how would I move the QUIT.SYSTEM to appear before the existing BASIC.SYSTEM? How does a user manipulate the order of the files to change which SYSTEM file you want to currently use? I would be astounded if the answer is to "delete everything and add files in the correct order" - I feel like I am missing something fundamental, but snooping around the web hasn't exactly been very informative. Would someone kindly kickstart my brain please?