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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: XDelusion on January 09, 2003, 10:02:48 AM
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Is it possible to not run Amithilon off CD, and boot it up from Linux instead? How exactly does this work, I've seen a tutorial to boot it from DOS, but screw that!
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XDelusion wrote:
Is it possible to not run Amithilon off CD, and boot it up from Linux instead? How exactly does this work, I've seen a tutorial to boot it from DOS, but screw that!
It's certainly possible. The Amithlon emulation is a Linux kernel, so it can be booted from Lilo or Grub just as any Linux distribution is.
My Lilo.conf Amithlon boot section looks like this....
image=/boot/new_emubox.gz
label=amithlon
root=/dev/ram0
initrd=/boot/smallird.gz
append="init=/linuxrc console_level=0 ramdisk_size=2310 leavepages=5200"
vga=769
read-only
Of course /boot/smallird.gz is copied from the Amithlon CD and /boot/new_emubox.gz is the new kernel that was available from Bernie's site. The older kernel on the CD will of course boot your machine.
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So since I can no longer grab that NEW file off his site, how would I set this up? Juest replace the new file listing with the OLD?
Oh ya, I am using Grub by the way.
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Offcourse you can use the old kernel or just download this (http://ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/hard/drivr/newkernel.lha) ;-)
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The FTP is down, is it ever up?
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Here (http://www.amiga-news.de/uploads/index.shtml) is a list of mirrors.
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Hmm, it loads to the boing ball, then freezes, just like when I try to boot it off the CD, guess I'll never be able to use it.
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XDelusion wrote:
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Hmm, it loads to the boing ball, then freezes, just like when I try to boot it off the CD, guess I'll never be able to use it.
that's what happened when i tried it on my laptop. i heard that amithlon doesn't support a P4 (which is what i have on my laptop). there may be fixes for this, but this sort of thing confuses me :-D
try the amithlon open group on yahoo.