emergency boot

[cecilia]

my amiga 2000 recently developed a HD problem and died. I replaced it with a 1 gig seagate (which had been formatted for PC's).

i never had a chance to make an emergency floppy (OS3.9)

i looked at the yahoo mailing list for os3.5 and tried making a floppy using advice and files from there and aminet.

still not working. the system doesn't even see the HD - i used sysinfo to check the scsi address and there are no conflicts. everything is where it should be.

my FAT95 ZIP reads just fine, but the only floppy i have to boot from is OS2.1 or something.

i've tried everything i can. i hate not having my amiga

[Hardboy]

If you have 3.1roms you could use hdtoolbox to format it (hdtoolbox comes with the workbench disks).

[cecilia]

sure i have 3.1 roms. that's how i could use OS3.9

but the problem is that booting from a 2.1 floppy doesn't let me use hdtoolbox. i tried. anyway, i usually formated my drive with the software that came with the magnum card (040).

if i could get hdtoolbox working, i'd use it.

Doesn't anyone have any A2000 3.1 disks for Cecelia?  I'd send you some of mine, but they are for my A1200.

Have a heart, someone.  In such an emergency, the term "piracy" doesn't apply.

A random act of kindness, anyone?

[SilvrDrgn]

There isn't a specific A2000 version of AmigaOS 3.1 disks, is there?  Aren't they all the same??

[Kent]

I hope I've taken care of this problem.  I know cecelia personally and have sent her a link with password to download a zipped DMS file from a private server containing the tools she needs (I hope).

I hope it works the way you need it Cec, let me know if you have any problems extracting the files.

:pint:

Your problem is actually very easy to fix:

If your system has 2.0+ ROMs, you can boot boot off the 2.1 disks and use HDTools with no problem.  The reason HDToolbox is not working is that the scsi TOOL TYPE is incorrectly set.  SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device should be changed to reflect the correct scsi controller.  If your system has a GVP SCSI controller, it would be gvpscsi.device or omniscsi.device (if you have a GURU rom installed).  The original disks simply have scsi.device entered.  If you are not using this controller, it will not find it.  Make sure that the case is entered correctly.. for example, gvpscsi.device, not GVPscsi.device.  Once it finds your drive, sismply partition it and format it.  Then install 3.9.  If you want more e help you can email me offline.

Steve

From all the ads I saw, it was pretty clear that each Amiga model had its own proprietary 3.1 ROMs and WB3.9.  The A2000 is not aga compatible anyway.

Hooray for Kent!

[SilvrDrgn]

From all the ads I saw, it was pretty clear that each Amiga model had its own proprietary 3.1 ROMs and WB3.9

Right, the ROMs are machine specific.  I don't think the software on the OS diskettes is though... correct me if I'm wrong.  That's what I was trying to get across.

[Thomas]

The ROMs for the A500/600/2000 are equal (one chip). The ROMs for the other machines (two chips) are different. There is a special Workbench floppy disk for the A4000T which contains the workbench.library that is not in the ROM for the A4000T only. The OS3.5/3.9 CDs are all the same for all Amiga models. Except that there are two revisions of the 3.9 CDs: the second revision contains the Boingbag 1 (it is labeled pink, the first revision has a red label).

Bye,
Thomas

[cecilia]

AvatharV wrote:
Your problem is actually very easy to fix:

If your system has 2.0+ ROMs, you can boot boot off the 2.1 disks and use HDTools with no problem.  The reason HDToolbox is not working is that the scsi TOOL TYPE is incorrectly set.  SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device should be changed to reflect the correct scsi controller.  If your system has a GVP SCSI controller, it would be gvpscsi.device or omniscsi.device (if you have a GURU rom installed).  The original disks simply have scsi.device entered.  If you are not using this controller, it will not find it.  Make sure that the case is entered correctly.. for example, gvpscsi.device, not GVPscsi.device.  Once it finds your drive, sismply partition it and format it.  Then install 3.9.  If you want more e help you can email me offline.

Steve

as homer would say, "DO'H!!!"
what a dope i am. i'll look and see if that is the problem. thanks.
somewhere i do have my 3.1 floppies. just have to find them. it's been so long that i needed them, god only knows where they are :-D