> Hello!
> 
> In message <199611191310.OAA02401@line9.slipneu.tu-freiberg.de>
>           Peter Berg <Peter.Berg@ww.tu-freiberg.de> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone yet spoken to ART about a modification of their bootsequence ?
> > If we can make ART to implement a HD seek procedure into RiscOS which checks 
> > the bootsector of *any* harddrive/floppy, this would be the best solution.
> > I would't say that this is to complicated, it only depends on how cooperative 
> > ART will be.
> 
> I'm clearly late in doing so, but I want to object to this as much as possible!
> I definitely don't want ART to copy broken things from the DOS world for
> questionable results and with clear drawbacks for everyone!
> You could put information like this in the CMOS RAM where it belongs which is
> in fact already done, see below.

Hard disc based booting is *NOT* only a DOS thing ! I know no workstation 
which boots from ROM. Also I didn't meen to replace the ROMboot, I only meant 
to expand it to be *able* to boot from HD, no need to do this if it's not 
needed (RiscOS) !
 
> I don't get the point in keeping RiscOS out of the boot sequence anyway.

May be I'm a purist, but I don't get the sence of let two operating systems 
check the hardware if only one will run. It only costs time.

> Are you all aware of the Fastboot and Autoboot options? They really need to be
> mentioned somewhere (as well as the options you can give to !BtRiscBSD in its
> !Run-file) as undocumented features are unused features.
> Read !BtRiscBSD.FBInstall which explains what you have to do.
> This has two effects:
> 1) If you use reboot instead of halt in the kshell, a bit in the CMOS RAM is
> set which is then read during the RiscOS boot sequence, which then boots RiscBSD
> without further action from the user.
> 2) If you press ALT while booting, RiscBSD is booted immediately by the RiscOS
> boot sequence. I estimate this takes less than 10s longer than RiscBSD being
> booted directly by a ROM program.
> It should be fairly easy to swap this so that RiscBSD is booted automatically
> and you have to press ALT to get into RiscOS. Look at it, I'm sure you can do
> this yourself.

I did this some time before and it worked. But my understanding of a operating 
system is, that it is able to boot itself without the need of another OS. 
However ...
All you said above I've done long ago and removed it again because I often 
need to run windows95 and this is not possible from within RBSD. Anyway, pure 
MSDOS soft without graphic I could run now under BSD, but only at 125% speed 
of a 4,77MHz ancient IBM-XT and only with UK keyboard mapping. Not really what 
I want ...


Anyway, the RiscPC is not a workstation, therefore there is no need to discuss 
this thread further.



Ciao, Peter

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