Yo,
I've never used an A1 or Pegasos and I'm a little confused by this OpenFirmware people are talking about. From what I understand your computer boots to some kind of text based screen mode with a prompt. At the prompt you have to enter which device to boot from based on the device it is attaced to (abit like linux?).
This seems really crap to me compared to what was offered by KS3.x chips. One of the things I love most about the classic Amiga is being able to hold down both mouse buttons and boot any volume. Also being able to assign boot priorities to devices.
I have nearly gone insane working with PCs and trying to achieve the same thing:
* BIOS has horrible texted based screen mode.
* Can only boot from Primary Partition on Primary Device.
* Some crap about logical devices.
* When running multiple OSes boot menu system needs to be installed on a FAT parition.
* Most BIOS made before 1998 can't boot CD/Zip/LS120
Seeing as how the OpenFirmware is in a flashrom, are Hyperion going to program it with a new verion of the Early boot controls? Does this mean we will loose the fantastic "Start with no Startup Sequence". And will we be forced to look at horrible PC like text based screen modes on startup?
