15 May 2010, 11:45 | #1 |
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startup-sequence
How is it possible, that a program starts from floppy, althought the present startup-sequence is empty.
There is also no custom bootblock. What is the trick. I have just checked: Eye of the Beholder (1991)(SSI)(DE)(Disk 1 of 3)[a] See the right dopus window in attachment. Last edited by mai; 09 September 2019 at 23:13. |
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If I remember, if its under 1kb, it wont will show as 0kb? |
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15 May 2010, 12:36 | #3 |
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If i try to edit the startup-sequence, then i see there is no line.
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15 May 2010, 12:59 | #4 |
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Probably file header has size set to zero but data pointer is still pointing to data block(s).
You see the contents ("EOB") under KS 1.x, KS2.x or newer only sees empty file KS1.x FS handler does not really do any sanity checks.. |
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there was a program you could use to convert a single executable to become a bootloader, the disk would boot direct and run that program, then when that program finished it would drop to amigados and load the startup-sequence.
i did this with a couple of compiled amos programs i made back then, the disk booted direct to it. the problem is the file doesnt show up on the filesystem and if you write to the disk afterward it usually corrupts the data. |
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27 May 2010, 00:23 | #8 |
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Still, isn't the startup sequence supposed to be in the S directory? Being there wouldn't work.
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01 June 2010, 16:22 | #9 |
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Ah, but you forget - if a normal system folder doesn't exist, it's instead assigned to the boot device's root (I just tested this with a blank disk that I installed a bootblock to - the disk was labeled Test, and everything but ENVARC: was assigned to Test:). ENVARC: is still assigned to sys:prefs/env-archive.
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I didn't know that. Nice!
Is this only working for 1.3 or also 2 or 3.X? |
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Tested it under 2.x, I assume it works across all Kickstarts. Perhaps not rev 27.3, don't really care to check there, but I wouldn't be surprised if things were this way really early, it's a fairly obvious thing to do IMO (and I have seen lots of disks with no DF0:devs and system-configuration in the root).
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