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From: bart@amiga.UUCP (Barry A. Whitebook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kickstart in ROM question
Message-ID: <1709@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 21:06:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1709
Posted: Tue Aug 25 21:06:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 04:30:09 EDT
Reply-To: bart@amiga.UUCP (Barry A. Whitebook)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 16795 Lark Ave. Suite 106, Los Gatos CA 95030
Lines: 133
Keywords: romtags in ram:

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In article <8708180804.AA27308@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> 
> The question is... is it possible to do this without switching in 
> a set of boot ROM's ???  Or, put another way... can Kickstart V1.2 boot
> Kickstart V?.? ???

this is amiga!bart: yes, it is (or should be) with the "ramkick" utility
to load alternate .ld files from V1.1 down into ram memory and protect them
from warmboots... 
(of course, there haven't been any releases of the .ld files from V1.1,
 and you can't replace exec -- don't ask me why... its just too difficult
 to bootstrap the bootstrap in this case)...

here's a binary copy: i suggest you create a foo.library named foo.ld and try
"ramkick -reboot foo.ld" to start...  from then on you can treat foo.library
as if it was in the rom all along!

WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!

this will programmatically reboot your machine when you invoke -reboot option

WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!WARNING!!!!

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