amithlon local boot (without requiring CD)

[amigau]

I realize this has probably been discussed at length when the Amithlon product debuted (and then was effectively forced off the market, unfortunately later), but I just fired back up my PC/Amithlon setup and wanna make it 'bootable' without the CD - there was an obscure way to do it by making a local linux boot partition, correct?  Has anyone done it lately/ever?

thanks for any help you can provide.

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

I've set up GRUB or the older bootloader before but only through the basic novice RedHat setup, which probably doesn't count

I had heard there was a list of steps to follow for making amithlon specifically be able to boot off the hard  drive but as you cannot boot directly into Linux off the small kernel included with Amithlon (or if you can, I have no idea how), and, given that my hd has NO linux nor winblows partitions on it ( I basically booted off the amithlon CD, then when in AmigaOS partitioned the drive that way, so it only has AmigaOS partitions now - I can blow these away if I have to, of course) I'm not sure how you'd use FDisk or something similar to set things up that way and if it would even work.

Basically I just need the list of steps to follow - I'm not convinced a general linux bootloader would work because I'm sure the current dists. of Linux are probably newer than the version of Linux included with Amithlon, plus, I have no idea what version of Linux that even is.....?

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[amigau]

excellent, smithers!  this worked.  basically I:

1) put in a blank 3GB IDE drive and installed Redhat on it (after messing with freedos and a basic RH boot floppy that can't do anything without the CD anyway

2) slapped the Amithlon HD back in the machine on the other IDE channel, and rebooted into RH again

3) followed Bernd's instructions on copying the .gz files onto the RH boot dir so GRUB would see them, edited the boot list file;

4) took out the Amithlon CD, rebooted again, selected the 'amithlon' OS in the menu and voila, here I am (a few config changes later) on the machine, using Miami/Ibrowse to post this note.  

thanks for the help!  

Now I can likely sell my desktop amiga sitting in front of me and transfer most of its information to this machine (has a 30GB hd, I don't think I'll be using it up anytime soon, this ain't Bloatware2000 like my work craptop, after all

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com