On Nov 19,  2:10pm, Peter Berg wrote:
> Subject: Re:  RiscPC_bootphase
>
> > Right, this is certainly possible. PCs boot their OS from disk so lilo just
> > replaces the first level of OS bootstrap on disk. RiscOS boots from ROM so
to
> > bypass RiscOS we'd need to blow some replacement ROMs. As RiscOS is
copyright
> > ART we wouldn't be able to include it in the replacement ROMs. We do not
have
> > the equipment or organisation to do this so we would need quite a large
amount
> > of interest to make it econimcally feasible.
>
> I don't think you'll get a large amount of this, because then everybody who
> has made it, will never be able to use his(her?) RiscOS *and* Windows
> applications. To this looks not like a best solutionto me.
> Has anyone yet spoken to ART about a modification of their bootsequence ?
> If we can make ART to implement a HD seek procedure into RiscOS which checks
> the bootsector of *any* harddrive/floppy, this would be the best solution.
> I would't say that this is to complicated, it only depends on how cooperative
> ART will be.

Indeed. The biggest problem though is that if people want to boot off something
other than the internal IDE the podules need to have been initialised. In order
to do this you need to bootstrap through RiscOS anyway. If RiscBSD and ARMLinux
could come up with a common way of doing the bootstrap then I'm sure something
could be arranged with ART. The real question is whether this is all worth the
hassle to shave a few seconds off the boot sequence.

Cheers

Rob

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