Re: [hatari-devel] Boot from HD and floppy bootsector

[Anders Eriksson <ae@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, Thomas Huth wrote:

> Am Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:24:57 +0200
> schrieb Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On 13/04/2016 18:14, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> > > A real Atari behaves the same, including Falcon,
> >
> > Could you please tell me what is the equivalent of "Boot from HD" on
> > real hardware?
>
> This option is only about the AUTO folder - and it's also mentioned like
> this in the manual:
>
> https://hg.tuxfamily.org/mercurialroot/hatari/hatari/raw-file/tip/doc/manual.html#The_Hard_Disks_Dialog
>
> It's just some "ugly" patching of system variables - so there is
> no equivalent for this on real hardware.

On a real machine you can bypass the harddisk driver by 
holding the ALT key during bootup, then the machine will function like a 
machine without harddrive (eg, load auto and acc stuff from floppy).

So it's a bit of a reverse to Hataris boot from hd.

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