Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!stable.ecn.purdue.edu!yorkw From: yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Booting from DF1: with software (how?) Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 21:44:23 GMT References: <1991Apr13.022557.28156@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <3164@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> Sender: root@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (ECN System Management) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 30 al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) writes: > Hmmm... booting from df1... I suspect that >you could do it in one of several ways: >1> Get a hardware hack that, with a swith, exchanged > which drive you use to boot, but I think it also > exchanges drive id's. The program ATOOL does switches them via a (Heck what's the Word?) reset-vector-alteration (Good as word as any eh?) But if ya boot offa df1: df1: wil BECOME df0: from then on till ya reboot. Interesting.. I wanna boot offa a RAD disk with out getting the 1.3 roms! :^) Or boot offa my 1020 drive, just to show them! How about booting offa my serial port!.. Yea... (Now that sounds silly) -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu aka Willis F York aka Squid on IRC The only thing that Apple invented is the idea to borrow Xerox-invented ideas. (Hope THIS sig don't insult anyone!) :^)