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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST?
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 14:35:40 GMT
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- >>>Q: How should I run FastBoot if I use Softboot to kick KS3.1? I tried it
- >>> once(kickstart along with softboot seemed to be grabbed too, so I
- >>> just run FastBoot w/o Softboot at all) and everything was fine until I
- >>> run Scout-> crash!!!
- >>Ludde: Have you tryed this?
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- >No, I havnt tried Scout + OS3.1. But I will!
- Good.
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- >But when I used SKick and kicked OS3.1, then grabbed.
- >I got the hole kickstart in the grabfile and it worked fine
- >when I used FastBOOT to boot.
- Yup, I know. It could be a MMU table.
-
- >That was actually very cool. I booted os3.0 and when it finished booting it
- >was OS3.1. :-) So I only needed to kick OS3.1 once when I grabbed to system
- >and not every time. :)
- Heck, I even run ScreenMode in the startup. :)
- Have to do it, or else one of my monitor drivers refuses to go overscan.
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- >>If softboot is using a MMU table, that is the problem. Its not suported yet.
- >>Programs using memory not allocated would crash too. Dont know if thats the
- >>problem with softboot though.
-
- >Yes, we must support MMU in the next version. :-)
- Yepp, just need some docs on it. Anyone?
-
- >Anyway, to all you guys. Its possible to use c:cpu FastROM, VMM or simular
- >MMU based programs with fastBOOT, just run the them *after* the system is
- >FastBOOTed..
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- In the FastBoot-startup script!
-
- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
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