Installing AROS (x86) to HD?

I don't know why, but I just had to register so I could add my two cents to this thread.  This latest release of AROS is very impressive!! It REALLY makes me want to install it to a partition on my HD (I already have Debian and win98, but having AROS would just be the best).

However, this thread certainly scares me! Guess I'll wait until the developers have a little more confidence in the process ...

Thanks,  for developing AROS

[Methuselas]

I agree with the aforementioned post. Kudos, you guys. I've been watching you for a couple of years now, but what you've done is incredible. I acutally pulled an old 340MB drive from a router that I was going install AROS on, yet I found no documentations. I'd be more than willing to do some HDD install tests if you give me some docs.  :-D
The only thing is, what do you mean you have to use a special grub, boot-loader? I would assume that since it's RDB, grub or lilo would work fine??

[Ogun]

I agree with the aforementioned post. Kudos, you guys. I've been watching you for a couple of years now, but what you've done is incredible. I acutally pulled an old 340MB drive from a router that I was going install AROS on, yet I found no documentations. I'd be more than willing to do some HDD install tests if you give me some docs.  

As I said above, my current priority is to get HDD installs to work. I am now quite confident in that I have fixed the needed geometry translations, so now I will focus on getting it all integrated nicely.

The only thing is, what do you mean you have to use a special grub, boot-loader? I would assume that since it's RDB, grub or lilo would work fine??

Normal PC bootloaders does not understand RDB partitioning for some reason . Hence we have a patched GRUB included in our distribution which also does the VBE things for us. In addition it also supports reading from FFS formatted partitions. We are working on getting this included into the official GRUB, so as to make life easier and probably be of benefit for Amithlon users (No more FAT partition needed to boot)