Re: [MiNT] [Mint-cvs] [FreeMiNT CVS] freemint/sys

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On fr., 2015-02-20 at 12:27 +0000, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> > You don't have to add anything to Hatari itself. One can write an
> XFS
> > that simply calls the ROM GEMDOS.
> 
> 
> Theoretically, maybe. But if i'm not wrong the only purpose of
> OLDTOSFS was to be able to boot MiNT from such a partition. And
> loading an XFS from a filesystem that it is just going to
> implement .... well, it might not work.

OLDTOSFS is a relic. It is no longer needed since FreeMiNT has it's own
FATFS driver.

You are right that MiNT will not be able to boot from an emulated GEMDOS
drive. But that is just because the GEMDOS drive emulation in Hatari
only supports one OS, namely TOS. That is a problem with the emulator,
not the OS.

Jo Even