Amiga 500 - KS 1.3 boot from internal IDE

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Look at Remus guide, it explains how to make a rom.
Same with Romsplit.

Can be found here;

http://www.doobreynet.co.uk/

Also have a look at the MS Windows program that also does ROM swapping and building here called capitoline;

http://capitoline.twocatsblack.com/

With ROMULUS and REMUS this will save a copy of the physical 1.3 ROM already housed in your A500 to a ROM file fo you to play with.

If no 1.3 ROM, then you will need to legally buy this from Cloanto from their Amiga Forever software.

[Boing-ball]

I decided to try again, following carefully the youtube tutorial. It seems I got exactly what he's showing in the video, but now I'm stuck for a silly problem:

He's showing the ByteSwap program, but I can't find it on the web and I don't know what is it for.

Anybody has this program? Is it free, can you kindly attach it here, or give me a link to download?

As far as I understood you don’t need to use the byteswap side of things. As you only have 1 x 16BIT ROM to burn. Byteswap should only be used for 2 x 16BIT (32bit) ROMs on A3000, A4000 and A1200 Amigas. From my understanding.

Try this video instead as it goes through a 1MB A2000 ROM using Romulus and remus. Maybe easier to understand.

https://youtu.be/tkH1kWZYS7k?si=8svuzT98Wz_smWYg

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I finally get some results, at least I got a booting (I mean: it doesn't hang during the bootstrap), patched kickstart. But nothing is easy, so it doesn't boot neither from HDD, nor from FDD.

I'm trying to understand if the problem is becuase my hard drive (FAT32) isn't bootable...  It works fine with the stock Kickstart and the "minimal boot" floppy (the workbench is on the HDD but it uses a FDD to begin the boot).  But it doesn't boot using the modeed kickstart.

Maybe it doesn't like the FAT32 based HDD ? Or some files are missing?

You are correct. The Amiga does NOT use Windows Filesystems to boot. You have to make sure it’s at least the native FastFileSystem or you can use alternatives such as PFS3 or SFS.