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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Mikko_PKP on May 13, 2009, 07:10:08 PM

Title: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Mikko_PKP on May 13, 2009, 07:10:08 PM

Ok, have this problem on _two_ machines now, so I presume there is a universal fix:

I installed OS3.9 on a new hard drive and put it in my Amiga(s) (the other one an A1200 with Blizzard A1260, the other an A4000 with CSPPC/060). And just to be clear, these are two separate hard drives, not the same one.

Everything more or less worked. I updated to BoingBag 1, everything more or less worked. I updated to BoingBag 2 and installed the ROM update -> all went haywire. The machines keep booting themselves over and over again with slightly different gurus.

If I comment out Setpatch, I get a booting system that is... stuck in the Stone Age. I tried renaming the latest ROM update file to something else, and still no dice. What to do here?

I did install the latest Blizzard libraries from phase5.a1k.org, but are they overwritten when BB2 installs? I have the installers on my larger HD partition, which I cannot access since the pre-Setpatch Miggy only sees the first 1 GB.

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: MozzerFan on May 13, 2009, 07:24:19 PM

Try adding the  NOROMUPDATE option to setpatch.

Like this:
"Setpatch NoRomUpdate".

Edit:
If you still have problems, try copying setpatch and the romupdate from the OS3.9 CD.

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: amiga1260 on May 13, 2009, 08:36:20 PM

Try to lower your max transfer to 0x0001FE00, that will help to stop the guru's.

You can change it with HDtoolbox.

I also had this problem when I was using a Blizzard 1260.

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Dragster on May 13, 2009, 09:19:50 PM

@Mikko_PKP

That's a bug in scsi.device ver 43.43 (3.9 BB2). Use SCSI4345p.lha from aminet.. this will fix your problems.

Cheers

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Mikko_PKP on May 14, 2009, 06:46:20 AM

Thanks for the quick response everyone - I'll give this a try when I get home!

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: stefcep2 on May 14, 2009, 09:49:58 AM

How do you pull hair with the software?  I would've thought you'd need some hardware eg the CD case

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Mikko_PKP on May 14, 2009, 09:53:19 AM

By the time you spend hours on end looking at gurus, the hair will pull itself.

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: motorollin on May 14, 2009, 10:10:12 AM

Did you install OS3.9 using the Emergency Disk?

--
moto

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Mikko_PKP on May 14, 2009, 11:06:52 AM

Actually did it both ways. For one HD I went from 3.1 upwards using UAE, for the other, I went straight to 3.9 from the Emergency Disk. I installed SFS, partitioned & installed the basic OS on UAE but everything else (including said BoingBags) in the real Amiga.

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Mikko_PKP on May 14, 2009, 06:33:38 PM

I did the scsi.device patch, and WOW! The A1200 now works. I'll proceed to tinkering with the A4000 later.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Dragster on May 14, 2009, 06:38:33 PM

@Mikko_PKP

I'm glad the patch did the trick :-D

Cheers

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: RMK305 on May 14, 2009, 11:25:53 PM

Are there not also other issues with BB2?

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: arnljot on May 14, 2009, 11:33:42 PM

Will SCSI4345p.lha also work with XSurf, CatWeasel and Buddah?

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: Dragster on May 14, 2009, 11:58:49 PM

@arnljot

No, it's a patch for OS 3.9 BB2 scsi.device ONLY (version 43.43).


Cheers

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: arnljot on May 15, 2009, 12:14:39 AM

Okay, these cards doesn't like the BB2 scsi device, under OS3.1 they are known as 2nd.scsi.device :)I hoped they played nice with this one :)

Title: Re: Pulling hair with OS3.9 BoingBag 2
Post by: save2600 on May 15, 2009, 01:58:46 AM

You gots to patch the patches!

Boing Bag 3 site (http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/boingbag/)