BootCreator 0.2 (PegasosII)

Have you seen this on ann.lu,
isn't this interesting ??

Why is all this cool stuff is comming out
just when my cpu card died ..

Bye,
Felix.

Hmm this could come in real handy. I've been thinking of making an attempt at installing AmigaOS 3.X on a new partition through MorphOS. I hear Elana has done this and its working well in place of Ambient.

Lets try it !!!!!

I'm useing it here. It works perfectly!!!
I wanted to publicaly thank the author, he really gave a big present to the community: a simple and intelligent solution to a so tedious problem we all had.

@Acill
Elena installled Workbench on top of MorphOS. NOT AmigaOS! Remember: AmigaOS!=Workbench

Morghot you did really a nice tool for our community!
Especially the possibility to see how forth can be used tointeract
with OF!
THX really a lot!

yeah! this is great.
Now if we could just add a little graphic of a butterfly/penguin/apple etc 8)

If a graphic is loaded into the openfirmware then it would be accessible for the bootmenu. Like the "b" in there now. Maybe a tiny butterfly, penguin and apple etc. could be added to the OF.


here is a copy of my bootscript file if anyone wants another example.


[LABEL]
Pegasos II Early Boot Menu

[TIMEOUT]
5

[SECTION]
1
. . : : MorphOS 1.4.2 : : . .
ide:0 boot.img ramdebug

[SECTION]
2
. . : : Debian 2.6.4 : : . .
ide:0 vmlinuz-2.6.4-pegasos video=radeonfb root=/dev/hda5


hope this helps
Scott

Hi there!

I read that it is actually impossible to use this BootCreator proggy on Pegasos I yet, as it's missing some functionnalities that, however, could be included in a OFW update.

So, would it still be possible to manually program the Peg I firmware to make a bootmenu? If yes, what command should we use to edit the file or env variable inside the firmware?

Thanks,
Fred

Boing

Graphics menus are possible and have been done internally by Genesi. Bplan did a special one for Motorola / Freescale. It even had ring tones !!

My advice is to learn the programming language FORTH - just some basics and you can code your own menu to your heart's delight

Hi Magnetic
Can you post an example of how to make a menu with Graphics to help us all learn...

Scott

Quote:

Why do this ourselves when someone (more capable of doing it than we are) already did the work ? (And playing with OF is dangerous as there's no way to reset the OF other than with using a serial cable...)

=> Why so many things stay hidden and/or not released when every pegasos owner could benefit from its release ?

Leo.

Quote:

You answered your own question above - i.e. its dangerous.

The problem in this community of why things are so secret is that if any dev or other person reveals something new or coming they are deluged with "when is it going to be ready" "what about x feature" etc...

imagine if you were on the other side. So, it stops information flow. I just mentioned this so that users could have a cool outlook on the future..

magnetic

ps if you buy a Forth book you can do this too

@Magnetic: unfortunately it seems my pegasos I doesn't allow such menus because of old firmware so I can't do anything...

Maybe I should try to update my firmware myself then ? ;)

Leo.

Hi,


I tryed bootcreator v0.4 on my pegasos1 without succes.

After created my forth script I ran it in OF and had this error:



no such symbol "$boot"
error: undefined word
>


what is the syntax to run the script ?

I did :

boot my-script



thanks

Did you made it with ALT option?

no ALT option

edited

I'm a little stupide

Forget ALT option.


It works nice now.

THANK YOU

if its possible to change colors in boot screen
it would be cool to have c64 style colors :)

Newbie question: where does one copy the resultant script from
bootcreator so that OF 'sees' it to execute it?

Thanks!

Harry

Move it to your boot partition where your morphos boot image is. Then go into the OF and:

setenv boot-file NAMEOFSCRIP|T

Thanks a lot. Got it. What a difference from the Amy 2500 this
machine is!

Harry

Today I played around with BootCreator and it works great

Thanks Morgoth.