Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hplsla!hpubvwa!grlab!scott From: scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: "KickBench" questions... Message-ID: Date: 1 May 90 15:03:48 GMT Sender: news@grlab.UUCP Organization: Graphicus, Inc., Kirkland, WA USA Lines: 29 Hi- I've got an A1000 with a SupraSCSI i/f connected to an external SCSI drive. I'd like to simulate "auto-booting" by leaving a single disc in DF0: that can function as both a KickStart disc and a minimal WB boot disc to xfer control to the HD and setup RAD: for warm-reboots. (or accomplish "auto-booting" by some other method). I got the KickBench off of Fish #36, but all it has is disked input files for KickStart v1.1 and early-release v1.2 discs. I haven't found an explanation of what it is actually doing to the bytes it it is changing on the discs...so the questions are... -Is there any tech docs describing what is on the disc that the ROM interprets as being a "kickstart" disc? -What are the KickBench changes to the Kickstart disc really doing? It seems that one way to accomplish the goal would be to somehow get KickStart to think that DF0: for the WorkBench disc starts at track where is after the KickStart part of the disc. -Does anyone have an appropriate change-list to make it work on a KickStart v1.3 disc? Thanx, -- Scott Blachowicz E-mail: scott@grlab.UUCP USPS: Graphicus ..or.. ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott 150 Lake Str S, #206 VoicePh: 206/828-4691 Kirkland, WA USA 98033 FAX: 206/828-4236