| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Could someone with an FTP access upload to TAPE:: the ADDTOOL software. ADDTOOL allows you to add entry into the TOOL menu of the WB 2.0. There exists also a tool to kill the system and allows you to reboot in 1.3 or 2.0 without switching off the Amiga. Thanks Alain
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| 4287.1 | See note 4208 - you can do it yourself | KALI::PLOUFF | Ahhh... cider! | Mon Nov 19 1990 12:07 | 1 |
| 4287.2 | WJG::GUINEAU | Mon Nov 19 1990 13:21 | 7 | ||
re reboot: is the CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA key sequence not sufficient? I have written a program that will allow you to reboot the Amiga from a CLI. joh | |||||
| 4287.3 | BARD::mcafee | Steve McAfee | Mon Nov 19 1990 17:52 | 5 | |
On the 3000, you need to cold-reboot to change from 1.3 to 2.0 or visa-versa. Presumably the program would avoid this... -steve | |||||
| 4287.4 | WJG::GUINEAU | Tue Nov 20 1990 12:39 | 16 | ||
> On the 3000, you need to cold-reboot to change from > 1.3 to 2.0 or visa-versa. Presumably the program would > avoid this... Not sure. If a cold boot is *required* then it most likely cannot be done from software. The code I have was taken from an AmigaMAIL article by Bryce Nesbit. I typed in the assembly code and made it work under the SAS/C assembler and then stuck a C front end on it to parse some command line options. The assembly code does some hacking which depends on the CPUs prefetch of some strategically placed instructions and then does a RESET instruction... john | |||||
| 4287.5 | reboot proggie please? | NAC::BRANNON | value added | Tue Nov 20 1990 15:42 | 6 |
re .2:
Could you upload your reboot program? I've been looking for one that
I could invoke from the CLI.
thanks,
dennis
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| 4287.6 | reboot.lzh | WJG::GUINEAU | Wed Nov 21 1990 07:09 | 60 | |
> re .2:
> Could you upload your reboot program? I've been looking for one that
> I could invoke from the CLI.
>
> thanks,
> dennis
Here it is -
wjg::amiga:reboot.lzh
have fun!
john
(README follows)
This program is provided with absolutely NO warranty or guarantee
whatsoever. If it causes any problems (I don't suspect that it will)
your on your own...
There, now that my concious is clear, here is reboot.
This is a program to reboot the amiga from a CLI. It is based on an
article in CBM CATS AmigaMAIL page exec/9 by Bryce Nesbitt on rebooting
Amigas (ColdReboot()). He claims it is the current "best way" to software
reboot the amiga (article dated 2/90). He also claims some GVP accelerators
will hang but GVP offers a pal to fix this.
I wrote this as a way of dealing with the Hurricane 68030 in my machine.
The Hurricane does not autoconfigure its 32 bit memory (UGH!) but they
do provide a program (HurricaneConfig) that, once loaded, will execute
very early on soft reboots (ctrl-amiga-amiga) and make it appear as
though the memory has autoconfigured. My problem was that upon cold boot
the GVP hardcard drivers would eat chip memory until I rebooted and
got the 32 bit stuff via HurricaneConfig.
reboot takes 2 options:
reboot [-r] [-c min_chipmem]
reboot -r will wait 5 seconds and then reboot the amiga
(waits 5 seconds for disk activity to complete)
reboot -c min_chipmem will check to see if the current amount of
available CHIP memory is less than the specified amount.
If it is, a reboot will occur.
I put:
HurricaneConfig
reboot -c 600000
in my startup-sequence. When I cold boot, the 32 bit stuff will not be there
so the gvp drivers will load into chip memory leaving less than 600K free.
The amiga automatically reboots and then has 32 bit mem for the drivers since
the HurricaneConfig stuff (which is now hiding out) will execute even before
the bus is configured (and gvp loads its drivers).
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