Hi Nicholas,

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I think the problem was breaking out of its straightjacket to make it load
> a local program in the first place (where local program is in this case the
> bootloader)

Oh i see :)) .. well one might also try pressing `*' when
resetting... this forces RISC OS to run module 0 which gives a prompt... I
think custom modules are run by default so if you set BASIC as the module
to run it doesnt matter if you press shift or not - it runs...

so maybe the `*' helps...

Cheers,
Reinoud