Re: Comparison NetBSD / Linux for Amiga

[Ciro Scognamiglio <moray%nemo.it@localhost>]

> Lars Hecking schrieb in einer persoenlichen Nachricht ueber "Re:
> Comparison NetBSD / Linux for Amiga":
>> 
>> [ Please do not Cc: me on list replies.]
>> 
>>> I've only had NetBSD installed for less than a week.  I have noticed
>>> that
>>> it can be booted from the Amiga boot menu.  Linux however is not to
>>> the
>>> point where it can do so.  It requires either Amiga Lilo or boothack
>>> to
>> 
>>  Huh? Why, if Linux can't do that, can I go into the boot menu on my
>>  3000 and select whether to boot dh0 (AmigaOS), rhroot (Linux), or
>>  bsdroot (NetBSD)?

Yes you can :)

I currently do this; infact when I boot up my machine (A4000T with
warpengine)
In the early boot menu I can boot from DF0, AmigaOS, Linux and Netbsd.
NetBSD Installs his hown loader in the first block of the partition where
/ is, so no changes are needed (apart setting this partition as bootable 
and reserving the first 16 blocks in HDToolBox).
With Linux you must have amigalilo installed, you can find the rpm package
in the RedHat5.2 archive (ftp.unina.it for example). 
You have to set the Linux root (or /boot if you have done it) partition
bootable
and reserv the first 2 blocks in HDToolBlocks.
Then you have to configure /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo -v" within Linux.
Of course you must install lilo to the / (or /boot) partition and *NOT* in
the
rdb disk block.
That's all :)

BTW I suggest you read carefully the amigalilo docs, make a backup of your
rdb
disk block and also a backup of all your data before you experiment. :)


Ciro.