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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: Amigamia on January 20, 2007, 01:53:58 AM

Title: Amithlon Installation Problem
Post by: Amigamia on January 20, 2007, 01:53:58 AM

I have done this in the past and with the same CD and bigger Hard Drive but now it is giving a problem I can't figure out how to bypass it. Here is the scenario:

I have a PC with 2 HDD (First: 13Gig, Second: 8Gig) AOpen AX6BC motherboard, 64 MB, Pentium 2 350Mhz, Sound Blaster Live, 3Com Network card, Nvidia FX Video Card.

I created two partitions on the first (13Gig) HDD, one of 10MB formatted as FAT16 made it bootable and copied over Amithlon files and all is fine. If I reboot, Amithlon will start just fine from the first partition.

The problem starts when I create on the rest of the disk, a new partition and change the type to 118 (Amithlon_vhd). If I reboot, amithlon will start like before but it shows a message on the left hand corner of the screen, before going into workbench: "Not a DOS disk in device dh0:" and "Cancel" or "Retry" won't do anything.

I tried to boot from the Amithlon CD, I thought I would bypass the whole setup, and to my surprise I get the same message.

If I delete the second partition which I changed to be type 118 (decimal, Amithlon_vhd) everything boots fine, CD and first partition with amithlong files on it.

I have done the same steps in the past with another machine and it worked like a charm.

I don't understand. Anyone can shed some light here???

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Amithlon Installation Problem
Post by: Amigamia on January 20, 2007, 02:26:02 AM

Nevermind I figured it out!!