Request For Enhancement: standalone EmuTOS hard disk driver

[EmmanuelKasper]

This gentle RFE is about having the EmuTOS hard disk driver as standalone driver as part of the build process, similarly to EmuCon.
The EmuTOS hard disk driver has a bunch of nice of nice features like full XDHI support and TOS/DOS partitions.
Having this driver available would allow to create ready to use to use disk images for the FreeMiNT project, similar to what ST Mint is doing, which could be used on real hardware, without requiring users to replace their TOS Roms with EmuTOS.
Alternatively the option to use EmuTOS as a FreeMiNT loader would cover this need.

[czietz]

While this is not exactly a standalone harddisk driver, you can already create bootable harddisk images containing EmuTOS (i.e., requiring no ROM replacement or 3rd party harddisk driver) with this (still in beta) tool: https://github.com/czietz/emutos-bootloader/.

Sorry, there is no documentation written, yet. For the time being, I'm afraid you have to follow this extensive thread on our mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/p/emutos/mailman/emutos-devel/thread/db36d690-75bd-bccc-e997-88f7d539eb7f%40gmx.net/#msg37186540

[EmmanuelKasper]

This looks like a promising first step, I will look into it and report any bugs I find, thanks.

[czietz]

I've just added some preliminary documentation to https://github.com/czietz/emutos-bootloader/