Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Oh, autobooting... Keywords: hard drives, autobooting Message-ID: <10150@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 88 02:49:38 GMT References: <18614@cornell.UUCP> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 26 In article <18614@cornell.UUCP| blandy@cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) writes: |Could someone post a comprehensive explanation of exectly what is required |(hardware, software, versions) to autoboot from a hard disk? Am I correct |in thinking that |1) the drive controller must have a driver rom built in Yes. |2) it's impossible for A1000 owners to avoid using a KickStart disk on | power-up (i.e. you can't put KickStart on your hard drive) Yes. For the A1000 CBM will distribute Kick 1.2.1 on floppy. On the A2000 and A500 a new Kickstart chip will be distributed (I as all other developers at DeVCon got one of these). For A1000 users maybe the "Kickstart Eliminator" could be used. I don't know if the chip is socketed on the KE. |3) all of this is irrelevant until 1.3 comes out - you can't autoboot | from ANYTHING until you have 1.3 Very true. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=