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Title: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: Heiroglyph on December 12, 2010, 06:49:39 PM

I've got several system drives that I'd like to boot to from time to time.

Is the early boot menu the only way to select a boot drive at startup or is there something like a Grub, Lilo, etc for Amiga that allows you to select a boot drive?

Thanks

Title: Re: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: kvasir on December 12, 2010, 07:07:58 PM

Without additional s/w, you can always hold the 2 mouse buttons while booting, to get into the early boot menu. I think anything above the Ami 3000 has that, though I could be wrong. If you have multiple drives/partitions that auto-mount, you should be able to select which one you need that way. Otherwise, a script in the bootable partitions startup-sequence could remap the system assigns to another drive and hand off to its startup-sequence, though that can be a pain to set up. At least you wouldn't have to actually set another drive as a boot device.

EDIT: oops... Looks like you've aready been doing the early-boot thing. But the script might still work. leander's idea with linux might work, too.

Title: Re: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: the_leander on December 12, 2010, 08:09:29 PM

Quote from: Heiroglyph;598324

I've got several system drives that I'd like to boot to from time to time.

Is the early boot menu the only way to select a boot drive at startup or is there something like a Grub, Lilo, etc for Amiga that allows you to select a boot drive?

Thanks

There is linux/bsd for Amiga, presumably they run grub or lilo, could you not use that?

Title: Re: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: Nostalgiac on December 12, 2010, 10:19:27 PM

Quote from: kvasir;598327

a script in the bootable partitions startup-sequence could remap the system assigns to another drive and hand off to its startup-sequence, though that can be a pain to set up. At least you wouldn't have to actually set another drive as a boot device.

thats what I used to do - a key detector (amiga, ctrl, shift..) that branched into multiple sections of the startup-sequence. yes, a bit of setup, but very flexible

Tom UK

Title: Re: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: Thomas on December 13, 2010, 08:44:45 AM

Quote from: the_leander;598334

There is linux/bsd for Amiga, presumably they run grub or lilo,

No, they don't. Linux first boots into AmigaOS, then runs the bootstrap loader which loads the Linux kernel and reboots. NetBSD installs the kernel loader into the reserved boot sectors of a partition.

Title: Re: Multi-boot Bootmenu?
Post by: actung_bab on December 13, 2010, 09:03:25 AM

i used to use program that you chould select diffrent startup-sqwences forget the name