CDROM BOOTING

[scafe]

Is it possible to boot from a CDROM device attached via IDE on the A1200?
If so how do i set it up to do so, i have and EZIDE interface which currently boots from a 250mb hd.
Its just i'm getting a single disk copy of the Debian (woody) for M68K, and im goin to have a bash at trying to get it to run on my A1200 :-P  Should be interesting

[Doobrey]

It`s possible, but not straightforward.
 If you`re using 3.0 Roms, then you can`t cold boot from a CD, as it doesn`t have the driver or CD filesystem in ROM. So you`d have to boot to the floppy or HD, load them into memory then reset.
 AFAIK, the 3.1 ROMS have a CD filesystem, but not the ATAPI drivers, so you`d still need to load up IDEFIX or whatever.

[Piru]

AFAIK, the 3.1 ROMS have a CD filesystem

No Amiga ROM have cd filesystem (except CDTV and CD32 extra ROM).

AFAIK the only way to boot from CD is to use Phase/DCE board with CD filesystem on flash (for example CyberStorm PPC, CyberStorm MK3 and Blizzard PPC). Not sure if Blizzard 1230, 1240 and 1260 SCSI-Kit had this possibility. IIRC, not.

[DeQuevedo]

Hi

There are any special needs in order to amke a bootable CDROM to boot on a BPPC?

I have tried with my SYS: cdrom backup but no success at all

Thank you in advance!

[Doobrey]

Piru wrote:
No Amiga ROM have cd filesystem (except CDTV and CD32 extra ROM).

 DOH.. I could have sworn they were in the A4000 3.1 ROM, I just checked with a hex viewer and they`re not there.
thanks for the correction.