Re: Amiga bootloader?
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Nigel Tamplin wrote:
> Is anyone booting an Amiga directly (not via AmigaOS / amiboot) into Debian
> from the hard disk?
>
> If so what bootloader are you using?
Amiga-lilo.
> I've installed Debian Etch on my A1200's hard disk. The disk is partitioned
> with a PC BIOS partition table and used entirely for Debian. Without a
> bootloader I have a rather convoluted boot process :)
Amiga Kickstart cannot boot from a disk with a PC BIOS partition table.
It needs an Amiga RDB-style partition table.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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