Video: AROS 68K Booting

[warpdesign]

I love the fact that in future, when someone asks where to find a kickstart ROM or a Workbench disk...

You won't even have to do that since we can hope AROS+WinUAE bundles that will just work out of the box.

Now you'll be able to tell you friend: "just download WinUAE here, it just works out of the box" and won't have to tell him.. "actually it's not that easy, you have to get a ROM, but I can give it to you.. then you need to get the WB disks,...", answer: "oh, nevermind, that's too complicated "

[warpdesign]

(be that original or one of the FPGA clones)

Again, we can hope to have the clones bundled with their own AROS "ROM"/OS, so it would run out of the box, no need to dump and install a new copy of the ROM.

That's more Amiga-like: just plug it in, turn it on, and voila! Ins't it ?

[warpdesign]

I prefer OpenBIOS, EFI was created by Intel with the evil intentions of removing the control you have over you own computer and giving it Windows or OSX (or any other closed source OS).

What's the difference from a user point of view ?

I don't see any...

[warpdesign]

What about doing some "relabel dh0: workbench" so that you don't get these "please insert volume workbench" anymore ?

Btw, what are you exactly demonstrating on these videos ?

 - (CBM) WB3.x on AROS ROM, right ?

[warpdesign]

Actually the hard drive is called Workbench... no idea why it keeps asking me for the volume... I'm guessing some parts are missing from the DOS library.



no, this is all AROS... just waiting on Jason getting everything needed in ROM before we can boot WB3.0

Ok

Mind posting your config file somewhere btw ? Wish I could give it a try

[warpdesign]

AROS will always be a bit slower than AmigaOS on basic system, as AmigaOS was written in assembly and AROS in C...

IIRC only exec and some other libs are written in assembly. Other parts are BCPL or C (like DOS which was rewritten in 2.x)...