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Re: [PATCH] Fixup for Amigas with memory at 0x200000



Hi,

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:13:54PM +0100, Gunther Nikl wrote:

>   Reading this, I get the impression that the only correct way to boot into
>   NetBSD is to use the bootblocks with its two stage approach. Is this
>   correct? AFAIK, that concept is also tied to the amiga graphics, which
>   is a problem if there is no monitor supporting their output. But maybe
>   I missed an important detail.

You missed the bootblock starter, which can start a bootblock from running
AmigaOS.

Besides, there is somebody doing a direct AmigaOS booter... check
news://news.netbsd.org/netbsd.port.amiga, sometime in December.

        Ignatios
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