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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: gdanko on November 08, 2007, 09:51:21 PM
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I downloaded xamiga and booted off the CD. I get an Amiga-looking screen that says LinuxOS. I saw a nice text-based installed on the xamiga page but this CD does not boot into the installer. Any ideas?
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Do you get the "CLI" prompt?
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moto
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Yep it is just a CLI (bash)
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Try typing "loadwb"
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moto
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No I cannot even load the installer!
You get booted to a small Linux install that LOOKS like the Amiga CLI :)
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Yes that's normal. This happened to me but I got a message with some instructions, and then I typed in loadwb and it started the gui installer.
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moto
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Oh okay! Well it cannot find my hard drive. :(
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In the GUI installer there is a hardware browser which shows what has been detected. Does your HDD controller show up there?
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moto
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It does but the disks do not!
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Do they show up in the disk partitioner?
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moto
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fdisk /dev/sda gives me device not found.
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Try the gui installer. It will scan for disks.
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moto
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I go plenty of errors.
unable to identify cd rom format
cp: write error: no space left on device
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad super block on /dev/loop0
missing code page or other error
in some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg itail or so
mount: mount point /xa/dev does not exist
mount:
mount:
mount:
mount:
mount: " some directories "
switch_root: bad newroot
kernal panic -not syncing: attempted to kill init!
edit**** On a third machine I get a tty error, /bin/sh
edit**** I reran it with -nofb and it is having trouble finding the media also.
2 cd's does this and the third has a CRC error.
The machines I used to make them had prevented buffer under runs. I do not know if the last item is useful.
Thanks. :-D
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I was able to complete the installation but the Grub menu never comes up to boot me into x-amiga. What do you see when you first boot into x-amiga for the first time?
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Also, I am prompted to do 3 things after the main install:
1) Copy ROMs
2) Copy an AmigaOS installation
3) Copy ADFs
Regarding #2, am I supposed to have a complete AOS install on an ext3 partition or something? How does this work?
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I was able to get xamiga to boot with the grub fix on the FAQ. Now xamiga boots but shuts down immediately. Any ideas?
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@gdanko
got the same problem here.. and grub just leaves me with a comandline.. i got to type in path to kernel, initrd etc.. and when i boot it runs for 5 sec.. and the goes to a compleate halt..
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gdanko wrote:
I was able to get xamiga to boot with the grub fix on the FAQ. Now xamiga boots but shuts down immediately. Any ideas?
Would you please be so kind to give a brief explanation as to what "xamiga" is?
Thank you!
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@Dandy
It's a minimal linux dist, direct booting in to E-UAE emulator.