This repository contains a few hacky scripts to create an extremely simple AmigaOS boot partition, which allows booting a Linux/m68k installation from AmigaOS prompt.
It is tuned to be used with my homemade, Buildroot-based Linux images, which might be published at a later point. For other Amiga Linux-y things (Debian/m68k, etc.), you can probably use it as a reference point.
This is all very sketchy, and probably mostly only useful as some sort of reference, to do your own version. Probably also useful for NetBSD/amiga with minor tweaks.
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affs-image.sh- creates a 32MiB AmigaOS FSS partition with the necessary tools to boot a Linux/m68k kernel -
dap-image.sh- combines various pre-generated partition images to create a bootable HDD/SD/CF image -
files/Startup-Sequence- AmigaDOS boot script -
files/mountlnxboot- mounts a FAT16 Linux boot partition using GiggleDisk -
files/b- one letter shortcut script to boot Linux
I got bored doing this all the time by hand for every disk image I made... Also, since my build process is based on generating partitions, then combining them into HDD image automatically to be written to a CF/SD card, it was a nice addition that the Amiga partition can be generated too.
- amitools - for
rdbtoolandxdftoolhttps://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools - Workbench 3.1 Disk Image ADF
- amiboot-5.6 https://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/misc/
- GiggleDisk http://www.geit.de/eng_giggledisk.html
- Phase5 CPU support libraries (optional) http://phase5.a1k.org
- FAT95 http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95
- various (de)compressors (lha, zip, gzip, xz)
- various standard Unix tools (dd, etc)
I only tested with the original Commodore Workbench 3.1 disk image, it might work with other versions.
The build scripts were tested on Ubuntu Linux 18.04/x86_64, but should work on any Unix-y system until the required tools are present and functional.
The resulting images were tested with FS-UAE on macOS, and on my Amiga 1200 with a Blizzard 1260 CPU accelerator with a PATA SSD. Other Amiga models and non-phase5 CPU cards will probably need some tweaks in the scripts.
- Thanks to the authors of the tools mentioned above.
- Thanks to Linux/m68k people for keeping it (mostly) alive.
Definitely no thanks to anyone who still tries to milk 25+ years old Commodore and Amiga copyrights and software.