Amiga bootloader?

[Nigel-22]

Hello,

Is anyone booting an Amiga directly (not via AmigaOS / amiboot) into
Debian from the hard disk?

If so what bootloader are you using?

I've installed Debian Etch on my A1200's hard disk.  The disk is
partitioned with a PC BIOS partition table and used entirely for Debian.
  Without a bootloader I have a rather convoluted boot process :)


Nigel





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[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Nigel Tamplin wrote:
> Is anyone booting an Amiga directly (not via AmigaOS / amiboot) into Debian
> from the hard disk?
>
> If so what bootloader are you using?

Amiga-lilo.

> I've installed Debian Etch on my A1200's hard disk.  The disk is partitioned
> with a PC BIOS partition table and used entirely for Debian.  Without a
> bootloader I have a rather convoluted boot process :)

Amiga Kickstart cannot boot from a disk with a PC BIOS partition table.
It needs an Amiga RDB-style partition table.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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[Nigel-22]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Nigel Tamplin wrote:
>> Is anyone booting an Amiga directly (not via AmigaOS / amiboot) into Debian
>> from the hard disk?
>>
>> If so what bootloader are you using?
>
> Amiga-lilo.

I had found a link to amiga-lilo-2.3.tar.gz when searching this list, is
that the current/correct version to use?

>
>> I've installed Debian Etch on my A1200's hard disk.  The disk is partitioned
>> with a PC BIOS partition table and used entirely for Debian.  Without a
>> bootloader I have a rather convoluted boot process :)
>
> Amiga Kickstart cannot boot from a disk with a PC BIOS partition table.
> It needs an Amiga RDB-style partition table.

Thanks for the info.  If Kickstart needs RDB then so do I.  I've
/dev/zero'd the PC BIOS partition table and recreated an RDB partition
table using amiga-fdisk.  Currently reinstalling Etch into the new file
systems.

Nigel


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