Re: NVRAM snd TOS Unix selection

[Petr Stehlik <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Eonic Man wrote:

> From a hardware standpoint, if NVRAM is set to select Unix instead of TOS,
> what happens?  Does this mean that the OS is booted via the floppy or the hard

IMHO it's just information for code in root sector.

> disk drive?  If this is the case, shouldn't this make it easier to deal with a
> 68060 on an AB so that the appropriate 68060 boot code would be loaded instead
> of the 68030 TOS code?

no way, TOS code is always started first. It's the nature of 680x0 processors,
you can't change it by software (IMHO).

The only proper way is to remove TOS ROM and replace it with bootloader which
would load OS from HDD or floppy.

Petr
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