grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) (08/16/86)
In article <15288@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Michael Robinson) writes: >In article <260@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (-Root Admin-) writes: > >The way I understand it, if you place ROM's in the designated sockets >(tucked away under the drive), the boot ROM's will recognize them and will >not prompt you to insert the Kickstart disk. > >So if you were to burn some EPROM's with the WCS image (somewhat trivial) >and plug them in, you would bypass ever having to load Kickstart. Of course, >you would have to repeat the process every time a new version of the operating >system came out. > This is kind of true. The A1000 mainboard is capable of running directly from directly from 4 512K EPROMs. You would not need the 'boot' proms, since the neccessary code is included in the Kickstart Image. You would have to toss the kickstart 'ROM' tower, move some chips from there to the main board and do a little PAL tweaking. A clever person could derive all the neccessary information from the documentation in the 'A1000 Expansion Architecture' package available from Commodore. Of course, the kickstart image still wants to load Workbench from the floppy, but you're halfway home... -- George Robbins - now working with, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) (08/20/86)
In article <15288@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Michael Robinson) writes: >In article <260@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (-Root Admin-) writes: > >The way I understand it, if you place ROM's in the designated sockets >(tucked away under the drive), the boot ROM's will recognize them and will >not prompt you to insert the Kickstart disk. > >So if you were to burn some EPROM's with the WCS image (somewhat trivial) >and plug them in, you would bypass ever having to load Kickstart. Of course, >you would have to repeat the process every time a new version of the operating >system came out. > This is kind of true. The A1000 mainboard is capable of running directly from directly from 4 512K EPROMs. You would not need the 'boot' proms, since the neccessary code is included in the Kickstart Image. You would have to toss the kickstart 'ROM' tower, move some chips from there to the main board and do a little PAL tweaking. A clever person could derive all the neccessary information from the documentation in the 'A1000 Expansion Architecture' package available from Commodore. Of course, the kickstart image still wants to load Workbench from the floppy, but you're halfway home... -- George Robbins - now working with, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)