From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat May 29 08:01:45 2010 Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 14:58:56 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1991019884.20100529145856@hol.gr> To: MiNT Mailing List Subject: Re: [MiNT] boot manager In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1253 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10739/Wed Apr 14 06:54:30 2010 on takeit01.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o4TC1i5V026597 Hello Miro, Saturday, May 29, 2010, 2:37:30 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > another "what if" question to the public. In your opinion, it is worth > to have some kind of boot loader / manager on Atari platform? You > know, currently this function supplies only HD Driver's "Boot > parameters" and "Devices and partitions" menus, where you can define > boot order (i.e. in what order disk/partitions should be checked, what > is boot partition and what is preferred OS to look for) but that's it. > You certainly know how Windows/Linux boot managers look like, on Atari > we're forced to always start HD Driver and change boot order there, > i.e. not possible to "dynamically" decide what partition / OS to boot. > I ask because I can't decide if it's so annoying or not. Last days > I've played with NetBSD, I plan do the same with Linux and in this > case it would help. But for "normal" Atari usage (TOS, MiNT, MagiC) we > can handle everything from C: as MiNT and MagiC needs GEMDOS > bootstrapper in AUTO. I think even Linux does? Only NetBSD is then > directly booted from MBR. While I have no interest for the moment to install Linux or NetBSD on my Falcon, I'll give a theoretical answer :) My system currently has X-Boot on the auto folder, and I have ready configs for just about anything I want to do (tos, mint, tos+nvdi, tos+thing, tos clean etc etc). So what I would set out to do would be to check out the boot code of linux and netbsd and try to make it run from the auto folder, so it'd integrate perfectly with what I'm used to. My €0.02 :) -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr