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- ReKick
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- NAME
- ReKick
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- SYNOPSIS
- ReKick - A tool to run special test Kickstarts on A2000/A500 machines
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- INPUTS
- A valid kickstart file in DEVS:Kickstart or in the file name
- given at the command line.
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- RESULTS
- A system running the beta Kickstart
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- 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.
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- Due to the methods required for BootMenu to operate, BootMenu may
- not be possible with ReKick'ed machines.
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- 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:
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- ReKick test disk:kickstart file
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- No quotes are required since it only takes the one argument.
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