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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #14 from previous page: March 22, 2022, 12:56:52 AM »
Would screenshots of SCSIInfo help?

What I see is:

the CD-ROM drive is unit 6 on cybscsi.device
the 730 MB SCSI HD is unit 0 on cybscsi.device
there's a drive at unit 0 on scsi.device
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2022, 01:18:06 AM »
from SCSI Info
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2022, 03:16:43 AM »
from SCSI Info
According to that, unit 6 is a CD drive, which explains why HDToolbox can't handle it.
Is your newer 2GB drive actually at scsi.device unit 0?
« Last Edit: March 22, 2022, 03:22:55 AM by Matt_H »
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2022, 09:57:46 AM »
So says SCSI Info (WHD0: is the 2 GB SCSI drive whose first partition I'm trying to make bootable)
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2022, 05:10:24 PM »
So there's your issue: when you start HDToolbox you need to pick scsi.device instead of cyberscsi.device. Then you'll be able to select the drive and partition and adjust the bootable flag as outlined in my first post.

If it's not letting you pick scsi.device, set tooltypes ASKDEVICE=NO and SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device.
 
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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2022, 05:23:22 PM »
Well, I have two tools (actually three, one for my Emplant partition)
in my Tools Directory: HDToolBox and HDCyberstorm II Toolbox.

What result I get depends on which I choose.
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2022, 01:19:33 AM »
THANK YOU Matt_H and others who contributed! Problem solved!

It was hard at first to find the "bootable" box to check, but I checked it
and confirmed that it was bootable by selecting it in the Early Startup Screen.

Now to adjust the user-startup on that HD's boot partition so that the
desktop looks like the usual one I see.
 

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Re: How do I make an already-installed Amiga hard drive bootable?
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2022, 02:25:24 PM »
Great! Glad it’s working.  :D