Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD from soft kicked OS3.1
To: None <amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Olivier Lahaye <olivier.lahaye@ramses.fdn.org>
List: amiga
Date: 09/11/1995 19:06:00
In a message of 09 Sep 95 John Shardlow wrote to All:

 JS> I have an A3000 which soft kicks the ROM from disk. I can choose from
 JS> 1.3 or 2.0 but recently I have been using a 3.1 ROM as some applications
 JS> need the WB3 stuff like locale.library, datatypes, etc...

 JS> Anyway, switching between 2.0 and 3.1 is a pain as I have to edit some
 JS> parameters with HDToolBox and power down to get the new ROM file loaded
 JS> !
How to switch:
copy kickstartV38 to devs:
copy kickstartV40 to devs:

make an hard link from the good ks-file to devs:kickstart

then do a cold reboot with a cold-reset utility

 JS> The problem is that NetBSD won't boot when the OS3.1 ROM is in memory.
MY ks V40.68 works fine with NetBSD.


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