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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mosst on February 15, 2009, 07:43:57 PM
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Hi,
I have recently bought an Amiga 1200hd from ebay witch I am very happy with except that the previous owner has messed around with the colours, icons, programs etc... So I would like to reinstall AmigaOS 3.9. I have the CD but the emergency boot disk that came with it just gives errors about inserting the CD in the drive but my pcmcia CD rom drive (Arcohos overdrive)works just fine with the current installation. I have tried making a new boot floppy but the same happens. So my question is does the emergency disk recognise pcmcia drives or is the disk faulty or is it me?
From,
Tom Moss.
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You should be able to create a new emergency boot disk, from the CD, but I bet the CDRom driver isn't on the disk. I never used one, though. I was a bit of a purist. I'd just reinstall when my boot partition was hosed. Of course, I'd also just re-install the backup I made, when I installed everything I wanted on my boot partition.
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The Emergency boot disk is created at the time of os3.9 installation. It is a bespoke disk designed to work with the ORIGINAL hardware profile. If the hardware profile has changed since it was created, then it wont work.
You can try to make it recognise your Arhcos by editing CD0: in DF0:Devs/dosdrivers to point at your CDROM device driver and unit number. You must also put your CDROM device driver into DF0:Devs
The disk will be nearly full, so you may have to delete the old CDROM device driver to free up space.
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I have made a new Emergency Boot disk from the CD and the same happens :-?
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Thanks I will try your advice on the 20th My Amiga is a birthday present so I was only allowed to test it (Well I am 13 anyway)