CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) (06/28/88)
Actually a person CAN boot an Amiga 1000 directly from Powerup to CLI/Workbench. With a Harddrive. No it isn't KS 1.3 or 1.2.1 or whatever it is. Its the Comspec SCSI controller... Made in jolly ol Canada. (Eh.... ) One of the guys in the User Group here in town has had one for 6 months or so, and has ZIP problems with it. its DMA, autoboots the system from powerup through Kickstart, to workbench to startup sequence execution. Its MUCHO fast. Until just a short time ago, you could only purchase the harddrive/controllor combination. I called them last week, and they are selling the controllers separately now. their phone number is (In Toronto.... 1 416 785 3553 ) ask for Amiga products info... note, I have NOTHING to do with Comspec.... i am passing on info. JpC -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. Crone Vice President, AURA, (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.) (Regina, Sask. Canada ) (eh???) CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET ....uunet!mcl!cronejp come on now.... does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say? --------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave_Oh@isishq.UUCP (Dave Oh) (07/02/88)
(Hope you all are enjoying Canada Day!) I was just thinking... If one was to download a hd.device into ram, and prect it so it can't be erased by most GURU's and C-A-A, couldn't you write a patch to make the hd.device in the RAM act as the HD's ROM and make the Amiga autoboot using the hd.device in RAM? Also: A side question. How do those virus' work? What do they do to stay resident in memory after a reset and how do they run themselves if there is no boot disk in drive 0? Thanx in advance. :::> Dave Oh uucp: who knows?
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (07/03/88)
Well, it's not perfection, but you should be able to autoREboot without the boot floppy even with a 2090: just use the autobooting recoverable RAM disk that comes with 1.3 to reboot the 2090. -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "Running DOS on a '386 is like driving an Indy car to the Stop-N-Go"