Startup

Types of Reset

Under RISC OS 3.7 and before a number of special types of reset were available to the user. Each of these reset types was triggered by holding a key during a reset. In particular :

In addition, under RISC OS 3.7 and before power on reset, Break and the reset button performed slightly differently, allowing 'soft' or 'hard' resets to be performed. From RISC OS 4, the operating system treats all resets as being 'hard'.

With RISC OS 4, the configuration of the monitor type was removed.

With RISC OS 4.15, the system will boot into a menu environment ('Boot Menu') when the shift key is used. This can be used to boot from alternative devices or to configure different settings.

With RISC OS 4.42, the only operations of these which remain are the Delete, Shift and Keypad *.

In order to support multiple displays it is possible to configure the display which the system will use on startup. This can be a problem if the display configured is no longer present (for example, because the podule has been removed). If the 0 key (not the Keypad 0) is held during startup the display will (for this session) be forced to display number 0.

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