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From: dzenc@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: KickIt Explained (hi K.C.Lee)
Summary: I've done this
Message-ID: <9007192250.AA28268@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 90 22:50:56 GMT
References: <4661@eklektik.UUCP>
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Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <4661@eklektik.UUCP> danbabcock@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/ph1) writes:
>Since they are already configured, they don't respond - so the OS thinks
>there isn't anything there (though it does somehow know about the first RAM
>card; see the above). If you just want to play with the new Kickstart, you
>can simply replace the reset/ColdCapture sequence with a JMP $200002 
>(also modify the code that scans for devices so that it doesn't
>reject the RAM card if it's not the first one). If you need to use other devices
>(like a hard drive controller), then you have to somehow force-feed the right
>stuff in one of the expansion.library lists after 2.0 is up and running. You
>lose the ability to autoboot in any case. 
 
Well, being jelous of all the people who were running 2.0, I had to figure out
a way of doing it on my 500 (with 3 megs/85 meg hd) without dismantling it.
The memory expander is the second thing on the bus, and doesn't have pass
through, so there was no way to use KickIt without removing my HD controller.
I've hacked up a boot disk which saves the proper config information, dis-
ables AutoConfig, reboots, ManualConfigs (TM) the hard drive, loads 2.0 KS
and starts it (reboots), ManualConfigs (TM) the hard drive, and AddMems the
remaining 1.5 megs of memory.
 
If anybody wants to play with it, I'm more than happy to send you the
programs I've written, and the startup-sequence.
 
-Dan
 
>-- Dan Babcock
>Voice: (412)-373-1753
>Internet: danbabcock@eklektik.pgh.pa.us
>People/Link: DANBABCOCK
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| ||    |o|     Dan Zenchelsky     |                                        |
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| |  ___  |  dzenc@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |    indistinguishable from a feature.   |
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