Amithlon on HP Laptop

[SnkBitten]

Interesting, you have 4 GB ram and Amithlon booted off the CD?  I've never been able to get Amithlon to boot on a system with more than 1 GB except for a Virtualbox setup I did with different memory settings (2 GB, 3 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB) and using the mem= statement in the linux boot config for Amithlon (small or amithlon).

Also, if possible, build another Amithlon CD but replace emubox.gz with kernel 3.10 and edit the config files to reference the new kernel in place of emubox.gz.  I've had varying degrees of luck with SATA drives.  Also check your BIOS settings and see if the SATA controller has a "legacy" mode or "IDE" mode and set it to that.  If that lets you see the drive you can start creating the DOS boot partition and Amiga virtual drive.

[SnkBitten]

Yes, it booted right up. I don't have that laptop anymore, but I think there's another one coming in my next shipment in a couple of weeks. Not sure what kernel version I was using. I should dig out the disk and try it on the new laptop and see if I can get any further than last time.

Interested to see how it progresses the next time you  have the opportunity to test.

I've got Amithlon running on a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop.  15", P4 @3.06 ghz, 768 MB ram, 80 GB HD with AHI audio, USB (poseidon/arakattack) and Wireless NIC all working.  Only thing really missing is accelerated graphics but it's still not that bad at 1280x1024x32bit "builtin" graphics mode.

[SnkBitten]

OK, I got 2 more of these laptops, this time I didn't even get the bouncing ball, just the word "Amithlon" then a blank screen. I took out some RAM (left 512 mb) and I got the ball back then something about 68040, then Phase 5 emulator crash!! So now I have no idea, I was sure I had it running from the CD on this model. So I guess you better leave it off your compatiblilty list :-(.

Thanks for the update.  Does your Amithlon CD use the original kernel or a newer one?  I've had better success with either new_emubox.gz or kern310 as the kernel (you have to make a new Amithlon CD that uses either of those kernels) for booting various hardware.