Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de> wrote:
> you wrote in <199501110930.KAA05271@euler.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>:
> > > to have a machine completely _without_ AmigaOS?
> > 
> > Yes of course!
> 
> Without AmigaOS would mean that it is not even used to load the bootblock.
> And that wouldn't work because NetBSD is not able to do Auto Configuration.

With `without AmigaOS' I mean `without booting the part on disk'.

Without playing with the hardware (replacing the Kickstart ROM or putting a
ROM module at 0x00f00000) you can only do the following things:

   - Use a custom bootblock (\`a la Amiga-Lilo)
   - Use the drive_init (don't know how it's called exactly) entry in the RDB.
   - Use an AmigaOS `bootstrap' command (loadbsd/amiboot).

The third approach is the easiest to implement, but requires AmigaOS (on
disk :-).

The second approach allows you to disable the ROM bootmenu too, but it's
more difficult (and dangerous: what if your NetBSD/Linux partition is
screwed up?) to implement.

The first approach seems the most reasonable to me for a `ready-to-release'
product.

Greetings,

						Geert

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