In article <9504141553.ZM3649@jade.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>,
Markus Illenseer <markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>  Exactly thats what I want. Specifically the Amiga can be told to boot from 
> cd0 (instead of fd0 or sd0, or whereever). The problem is *what* is beeing

I don't believe this is correct.  CD0 will not show up on the ROM
bootmenu screen if you hold down the mouse buttons durring reset.  The
CDFileSystem is not in ROM except on the CDTV and CD32 (which, at least
as shipped, can't run NetBSD anyway, and I don't know if there are any
MMU-equipped accelerators for the CD32 -- and besides, NetBSD wouldn't
be able to access the CD anyway, since it doesn't have a driver for the
proprietary interfaces used), so the system won't boot from an ISO CD
(although, you MIGHT be able to make it work by putting the FS in the
RDBs of a hard disk, though that's less practical that just booting from
a floppy, or booting AmigaOS normally and then booting NetBSD).  Or, you
could put RDB's on the CD, but that's going overboard (not that it may
be possible to do this and still have a fully standard ISO CD.  With
some ingenuity, you could probably put the RDBs inside a file in the ISO
filesystem that started on a block boundary within the first
RDB_LOCATION_LIMIT blocks.  Still, I think this is overkill). 

I don't this booting from CD-ROM is at all important. Being able to
load the kernel from, and have root filesystems on the CD is, but I
don't see that booting direct from CD (ie, without a trip through
AmigaOS) is important, especially since we can't boot direct from HD
either yet. Also, for some purposes you REALLY want to make sure that
the trip through AmigaOS is modifiable (ie on floppy or HD) to ensure
that, for example, non-autoconfiged memory is entered into the system
memory list. If I were a potential customer, I would want to boot my
system normally and then install, rather than having to boot off the CD
directly, since that would give me more control.

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