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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard autoboot
Message-ID: <7503@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 02:16:51 GMT
References: <1040@clyde.Concordia.CA>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1040@clyde.Concordia.CA> kiron@concour.CS.Concordia.CA (Kiron Bondale) writes:
$Hi all, finally got my virtual drive working on my Bridgeboard...now
$I have another question...
$is there any way that I can get my virtual drive to autoboot (ie. not
$have to use my MS-DOS system disk everytime I use PCcolor, but rather
$have it boot off the hard drive???
$System Configuration : Amiga 2500 with XT Bridgeboard...

Get the Janus 2.0 software (don't know the policy in Canada).  The
new software provides autoboot, but not through the virtual drive means;
you have to reserve a fixed space on the Amiga hard drive using a new
MakeAB command.  The great thing about it is the space on the Amiga drive
used for MS-DOS (which is a file under AmigaDOS just as the virtual JLINK
style drives are), acts, looks, smells, walks, and talks like a PC hard
drive.  You specify heads, cylinders, etc., for the fake drive.  To have
it autoboot, you must format it with the system files of course, and then
specify in your pc/system drawer in a file called ABoot.Ctrl where the
AmigaDOS file containing the PC hard drive is.

Simple. :-)  Actually, I have done this on a number of Amigas
now and it is quite simple.

	Paul.