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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ReKick
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NAME
ReKick
SYNOPSIS
ReKick - A tool to run special test Kickstarts on A2000/A500 machines
FUNCTION
ReKick is a tool for A2000 and A500 systems with at least 1Meg of
AutoConfig RAM at $200000. It, along with the special kickstart
files designed for ReKick, will let developers and beta testers of
our new kickstarts boot into the kickstart.
ReKick does *NOT* require that the autoconfig memory be the first
board in the system and thus will work with systems that have
A2091 with RAM or A590 with RAM. (Since the drive part configured
before the RAM did...) Also, ReKick will fully configure the boards
using the new kickstart. This means that there are no limitations
to the type of boards that the system should correctly understand
with ReKick vs ROM kickstarts.
ReKick works by first checking to see if the system has memory
to support it. It will then check for a file in DEVS:Kickstart.
This file must be of the correct format and it must pass certain
consistancy checks. After the file has been loaded and checked,
ReKick will print a notice and give you 3 seconds to abort the
reboot. If you do not reboot, you will be booted into the normal
boot process of the new, beta kickstart.
Since ReKick will quietly fail if there is no DEVS:Kickstart or
if you have already been ReKick'ed, it is very easy to just have
ReKick as the first line of the startup-sequence.
ReKick takes a single command line parameter that is parsed as
the filename of the kickstart. If no command line parameter is
given, ReKick will use DEVS:Kickstart as the file name.
ReKick can also be started from Workbench. When started from
Workbench, it will take any command line parameters and it will
not give you a chance to abort it.
INPUTS
A valid kickstart file in DEVS:Kickstart or in the file name
given at the command line.
RESULTS
A system running the beta Kickstart
NOTE
Due to the fact that you are not really in ROM with the kickstart,
and since this trick does not use the MMU (it works on 68000 machines)
the ROM is *not* write protected. Writes to ROM may well crash the
system.
Due to the methods required for BootMenu to operate, BootMenu may
not be possible with ReKick'ed machines.
Note that the command line parameter is not parsed but is assumed
to be a complete file name. This means that if you wish to have
the file "test disk:kickstart file" used you would use:
ReKick test disk:kickstart file
No quotes are required since it only takes the one argument.