Amiga OS 4.1 and MorphOS 2.2 dual boot video

[HammerD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usceTXybNbA

edit: updated video

[hooligan]

Already commented the video but maybe you can answer, why does it take OS4 to load three times longer than MorphOS? I find it quite surprising as now they are running on the same hardware and all.

[HammerD]

MorphOS loads a bit faster, I admit that. But there is the added 5 second countdown delay on the OpenFirmware boot loader for OS 4.1.  Both systems are very comparable in speed, a couple seconds of boot time doesn't really make a difference, at least to me.

[hooligan]

Actually I timed by (what I think) the start of the bootsequence to ready-to-use workbench/ambient. And the difference of course doesn't matter much, was just curious. Nevertheless, coolgeekfactor +10

[Lorraine]

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[HammerD]

It is very easy as long as you have an available partition...the OS 4.1 installer is quite good.

I was already using a boot menu system on the Pegasos 2, so I just had to add one entry, basically.

BTW, the new video is better, so I removed the old one

[BinoX]

Nice vid

[CLS2086]

Would you details all your partition (type and version), because I plan to do the same thing very soon...
And which one that can't be seen in the other world.
Thanks a lot !

[HammerD]

@CLS2086

Sure.  Here we go:

The initial boot menu you see in the video is created with Boot Creator.  You can download it here:

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/bootcreator-1.1

The partitions on my system are:

bi0: Fast File System (DOS\01)

This is where the MorphOS boot image is stored and also the Amiga OS 4.1 open firmware boot loader

DH0: Smart File System (SFS\00)

This is where my MorphOS SYS: partition is.

DH1: Smart File System (SFS\00)

This is where my Amiga OS 4.1 SYS: partition is.

LNX: partition for Linux (LNX\00)
LNX2: partition also for Linux (LNX\00)
MAC: partition for MacOS X (LNX\00)

Basically you start from a normal MorphOS installation, follow the boot creator instructions to create your boot menu, then copy the Amiga OS 4.1 open firmware loader to the boot partition (which has to be Fast File System), and then proceed installing Amiga OS 4 onto an empty partition which is formatted with Smart File System.

Amiga OS 4.1 for Pegasos 2 will come with an installation guide and there is a section on dual booting.

[Ruud]

@HammerD

I'm planning on setting my system up in a similar way so that's really useful info, thanks.

[CLS2086]

Thanks for you reply !  :-)