Re: Using bootblocks on Blizzard 1260

[Patryk Łogiewa <silverdr%inet.com.pl@localhost>]

Hello John

On 09-Maj-01, you wrote:

> I have a number of Amiga computers which all use bootblocks to boot
> NetBSD - Amiga 4000 & A3640 & IDE, CyberStorm PPC & SCSI, CyberStorm Mk
> III & SCSI, Amiga 3000 & SCSI... but for some reason I cannot get
> bootblocks to work on an Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1260, and Blizzard SCSI.
> 
> I've even tried to boot drives that work just fine on other systems, but
> they don't boot properly with the A1260.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?

I have... but with A2000 and GVP's G-Force 030. No matter how I set things
up, I always needed to use the boot menu to force it boot from NetBSD's
partition.

> Is this due to buggy ROMs on the A1260
> SCSI?

I believe there must be something about the ROMs or the RDB, which (on some
drives) happen to be differently seen on both AmigaOS and NetBSD. In your
case the latter doesn't apply though.

> 
> I really don't want to use the AmigaOS loader because moving the kernel
> over is a real pain with a low density floppy...
> 

That's true and that's why I always used the BFFS for that purpose.

Regards
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