Cheating SmartFirmware
  • Targhan
    Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8
    From: USA
    After much arguing, here is how you can set a dual boot system that is slightly less painful than having to type a giant string at the smartfirmware prompt:

    Use the diagnostic boot-parameters! Assuming MorphOS is your main system, do not mess with boot-file, or boot-device at all. To put PegXLin as the *secondary* boot system do the following at the smartfirmware prompt:

    setenv diag-device /pci/ide/disk@0,0:0
    (this should be the drive that PegXLin is on)

    setenv diag-file pegxlin root=/dev/(your linux partition) video=radeon
    (use the parameters as given in the README on the PegXLin CD.

    Now, to switch back and forth between PegXLin and MorphOS, you simply need to change the "use-diag?" variable. If you set it to true, it will boot pegxlin (even after a shutdown). If you set it to false, it will boot to MorphOS (even after a shutdown). The command to change it is:

    setenv use-diag? true
    or
    setenv use-diag? false

    This is particularly great if you use Linux through the week for work, then MorphOS on the weekends for fun (or vice-versa). Anyway, it's what I use.
    :idea:Targhan

    MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
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