Subject: Re: 1.6 & -current miniroot: grey screen after loading kernel
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/06/2003 16:59:50
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:13:01PM +0200, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:
> A quick glance at the bootblock code finds a comment saying:
> 
> /*
>  * Kernel ist loaded from device and partition the kickstart
>  * menu or boot priority has chosen:
>  */
> 
> ...which would hint that it isn't actually possible to use kernel from a
> different partition than the one the bootloader was booted from...

  Because the loader uses the iorequest passed by AmigaOS to load
  the kernel?

  Gunther

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