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[MiNT] boot manager
Hi,
another "what if" question to the public. In your opinion, it is worth
to have some kind of boot loader / manager on Atari platform? You
know, currently this function supplies only HD Driver's "Boot
parameters" and "Devices and partitions" menus, where you can define
boot order (i.e. in what order disk/partitions should be checked, what
is boot partition and what is preferred OS to look for) but that's it.
You certainly know how Windows/Linux boot managers look like, on Atari
we're forced to always start HD Driver and change boot order there,
i.e. not possible to "dynamically" decide what partition / OS to boot.
I ask because I can't decide if it's so annoying or not. Last days
I've played with NetBSD, I plan do the same with Linux and in this
case it would help. But for "normal" Atari usage (TOS, MiNT, MagiC) we
can handle everything from C: as MiNT and MagiC needs GEMDOS
bootstrapper in AUTO. I think even Linux does? Only NetBSD is then
directly booted from MBR.
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