Does the AmigaOne have "early startup" menu and can it be used for "Dual booting"???

[Seehund]

What's the big deal with how a firmware settings screen looks like?
- "It's black and it's got white characters!"
- "No, it's blue and it's got light-grey characters!"
- "You access it by holding down 'Delete' at power-up!"
- "No, you access it by holding down 'F1'!"

Who cares? It sounds like some people think of modern hardware as an Amiga or something. It's the available settings that are interesting. Can you set both FSB frequency and multiplier? CPU and RAM voltages? Or can these only be adjusted with jumpers on the Teron boards? Et c. All this has of course nothing to do with AmigaOS or whatever other OS you use.

What I wonder is what bootloader is recommended/shipped to dual boot with AmigaOS? Yaboot? Or can PPCBoot handle this by itself?

[Seehund]

DaveP wrote:
Its only a little horn, which is probably why it is blown so much.

Don't make me come over there and whip out my horn!


Now, could someone who owns a Teron tell us what firmware options are available? Coder?

And does someone (Rogue, EntilZha...) know how AOS and other OSes will be booted?

[Seehund]

Kay wrote:
> Who cares?

Seriously, it seems a lot of people cares. Two reasons for this, I think: Firstly, the early startup menu is a typical Amiga feature, which is much liked and something people want on the new machines as well.

Guess I should have phrased it "Why do some people seem to care" then. It seems to be the same people who seem to make up a worryingly large percentage of the OS4 and "AmigaOne" Yahoo MLs. "The Amiga had an Early Startup Screen, accessible by holding down both mouse buttons and letting you do things like choosing NTSC/PAL from a grey screen with button gadgets and a Topaz font. Other hardware must have this too!! And we want boing ball animations!!!" In *my* eyes this is irrational and meaningless and has nothing to do with AmigaOS. Oh well.

[Seehund]

Orgin wrote:

Steps:

1. Normal BIOS boot (press Fx-key for BIOS settings)
2. Grub or similar startup menu (for booting different oses)
3. Selected OS boot
3.1 If booting 4.0, an early startup menu will be available by using the standard hot key (LMB+RMB)
3.2 If booting another OS, that OS's standard boot procedure will execute.

Can't see why it would/should be made in another way than the above.

Agreed. If there are AmigaOS-specific boot options, they should of course be accessible from AmigaOS, not the firmware of whatever hardware it's running on, i.e. "the AmigaOne" mentioned in the very subject of this thread.