Lord@Arthur
Excuse me, but i think you're wrong !
'Classic' Amigas have a boot chip (the ROM) in which stand the early boot code and the kernel. It's this code that is used to display the "Early boot menu" when you power on tha Amiga while pressing on both mouse buttons. Hard-disk or floppy disk aren't active yet at that moment. What you're talking about is the Boot code to load a system (effectively present on the RDB), and not that one that initialise the mother board.
This early boot code can be compared to the BIOS Setup, excepted that Amiga's one has a better interface, i.e. mouse and icons ! This is what i'm looking for on any real Amiga (but with even better looking interface :-D), and not that ugly text interface of the PEECEE BIOS.
My concern is about the boot process ! Will it be :
1. Power ON
2. Executing AmigaROM with System kernel and BIOS Functionnality included
3. Booting on a device (local or networked)
or will it be :
1. Power ON
2. Executing classic (ugly) New PPC BIOS
3. Loading/Executing Amiga Early Boot code (i read somewhere that it will remain)
4. Booting on a device (local or networked)
Anyway, it's GOOD NEWS !!! :-P
