Re: Boot A1200 from disks connected to FastATA

Hi, thank you for your comments!

On 2022/07/22 23:03, John Klos wrote:
>> However, both with Kickstart 3.1 and 3.X, NetBSD cannot boot from
>> CF connected to primary slot of FastATA; "insert FD animation"
>> appears on screen. I can boot from this CF if it is directly
>> connected to internal IDE slot without FastATA.
>>
>> I know almost nothing about Amiga, and I don't know whether it is
>> possible, in principle, to boot from disks connected to FastATA.
> 
> The boot code for certain controllers doesn't support booting with NetBSD bootblocks even though they'll boot AmigaDOS just fine. This is the case with my Blizzard 1260' SCSI interface, for instance.
> 
> If direct booting really doesn't work for FastATA, you can either boot directly from the regular IDE, or you can boot in to AmigaDOS and use loadbsd to boot.

Ah, it may be. I should have AmigaOS CF, but I could not find it from
my junk box at the moment. If I could, its data may be lost... I will
buy a new copy to try.

>> My CF card is 8GB size, and root partition of NetBSD is larger
>> than 4GB. Is this related?
> 
> That shouldn't be an issue at all. After all, you're not seeing the bootblock loading and prompting you for the kernel name and options, right?

Yes, even the primary boot does not load, and "insert FD" message
appears on screen.

Thanks,
rin