Burn a 3.9 Kickstart ROM?

[MarkAshley]

Would it be possible to burn a chip with the 3.9-patched 3.1 ROM? ie the 3.1 ROM with the "AmigaOS ROM Update" and everything else included with Setpatch, so that the initial reboot that setpatch causes wouldn't be required.

Just a thought  :-)

[MarkAshley]

Piru wrote:
No.

Why not?  :-D

[MarkAshley]

Is the A1200 Kickstart made up of 2x256 ROMs then? (ie two separate chips of 256k each)

I would love to see a hardware mod to allow all of the kickstart patches loaded by setpatch to be available in ROM.

Large disk support from cold boot anyone?  ;-)

[MarkAshley]

Yes that's true. I guess once the ROM image works in UAE, then we can think about getting it burned to a chip.

I am aware of some utilities that read the data from the ROM chip and save it to a file. Would this save the 3.9 patched ROM information that is loaded in RAM, or would it rip the 3.1 kickstart directly from the ROM chip?

[MarkAshley]

So I guess we're stuffed then. A shame really! I hope OS4 for classic PPC machines will come with a new ROM chip (kickstart 4.0?)

[MarkAshley]

I see. So Kickstart 3.1 would only be required to access the disk in order to find the 4.0 kickstart image, load it in to RAM and reboot?