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- From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: A2088 configuration question
- Message-ID: <Rick_Lang.00tp@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 05:38:14 GMT
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
- Lines: 38
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- In a message dated Mon 28 Dec 92 2:43, ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans)
- wrote:
-
- H> My main question is how do I get the Bridgeboard to use an Amiga
- H> partition as a C: drive (and make it autoboot?) I managed to get
- MakeAB
- H> to create a (huge) ABoot.CTRL file, but I don't know how to get MS-DOS
- H> to use it. Running ADISK on the Bridgeboard says "Could Not Open
- H> AutoBoot File."
-
- The Aboot.ctrl file is just a pointer to the Amiga file representing your
- pseudo C drive, not the actual file created by MakeAB! Terminate the file
- name specified by Aboot.ctrl with 0x0A. My Aboot.ctrl file specifies:
- AT:ATHardDisk where AT: is my partition for the pseudo C drive and
- ATHardDisk is the large file created by MakeAB. It's best to use a
- partition that just contains the pseudo C drive as you may have to use a
- mask=0 entry to avoid parity errors. Mask=0 prevents DMA I believe, so you
- don't want to use this value on your normal Amiga partitions of course,
- just the emulated PC C drive.
-
- H> I'd also like to know what is the usual way to get the services started
-
- I have entries in user-startup for the PCDisk program, etc. The timing may
- be important as your PC will be trying to boot from the pseudo C drive so
- you may have to play around with where you place the run PCDisk entry which
- makes the connection.
-
- You've done very well without the documentation! Good luck.
-
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- -- Rick Lang
- Editor of the AmUser News - the Victoria Amiga User Group Newsletter
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