Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD

[Framiga]

"Soooo, I suppose what I'm really asking here (long story short...) is this: is it normal for the 15KHz output to go to a blank screen when OS4 has finished booting if you have a BVision installed?"

yep

edit- as blank i mean white.

[Framiga]

never tryed to actually use OS4 on AGA ... probably yes. (i did only all the installation under AGA for mistake)

Edit- just checked with Scout and ScreenMode  and although without having any PAL descriptor in Devs/Monitor, a lot of PAL modes are present

[Framiga]

"Hmm, 800x600 should display on the VGA monitor I'm using. I hope the CVPPC isn't dead"


i'm confused now! we are still speaking about an A1200?

and re-reading your posts i'm more confufed now.

Have you installed the FFS dundled with the OS4 CD (68K) onto the RDB with dostype DOS/7 (support for longfilenames)? or better SFS?

[Framiga]

yes ok but the OS4 partition, have some very long filenames that if you used an old FFS, will be truncated.

Fonts directory, for example

[Framiga]

of course

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Oblique.otag (more than 32 char)

[Framiga]

is in OS4CD:System/L/ (v51.10)

but why dont setup a 500MB 68k SFS partition instead? dump all the CD content and then do what you need to do (not sure how, anyway)

[Framiga]

installing from the HD mirrored CD.

You have to tweak a lot. Good luck :-)

[Framiga]

"Really? It seemed to find the files on the HDD without any changes (the partition was called "AmigaOS 4.0 Install CD")."

err no!

Directory Vuoto:AOS4_CD

BootFloppy                          [     Dir]
C-68k                               [     Dir]
Installation-Files                  [     Dir]
Installation-Support                [     Dir]
S                                   [     Dir]
System                              [     Dir]
.backdrop                                  23
AmigaOS4-Installation                   17266
AmigaOS4-Installation.info               5571
AmigaOS_InstallerLocale.py              12299
CD-Version.txt                             68
disk.info                                9714
installer-logo.png                      60036
license.txt                              7552
Make_Bootfloppy                           741
Make_Bootfloppy.info                     2634
Start_From_OS3.x                          621
Start_From_OS3.x.info                    2633
System.info                              8316

[Framiga]

ok, the one i posted is a mirror of the whole AOS4 CD onto my HD (Vuoto:)

So you will use the Start_From_OS3.x script?

[Framiga]

looking at the boot floppy SS, it should.

Use absolutely a 500MB bootable partition with a filesystem supporting long filenames. (the CD is less than 150 MB).

All the rest is up to you ;-)

oops remove "bootable"  

[Framiga]

gulp, ok! let we know.

[Framiga]

its working!

OS4 starts using the 68K to load the bootloader (all 68K until now filesystem also) then reboots and since then only the PPC is used.

Now start to reduce every eye candy like gradients and antialias, use a 16 bit WB and enjoy it! :-)

oops forgot ... remove screen dragging and Drag/resize window with contents also. (beeing a 603e without SCSI)

[Framiga]

ok perfect!

Once you have installed the whole AOS4, you can use your buffered interface.

It "seems" that the problem arise only during the installation (on some machines)

Theres a option to enable it.

look at the file SYS:Kickstart/KickLayout-A1200 at the line

; The IDE scsi.device can not autodetect IDEFix/IDEFix97/IDEFix Express
; IDE port doubler hardware. When you have such hardware installed,
; uncomment the following line by removing the leading semicolon,
; then the IDE scsi.device can use IDE drives on the second IDE port.
; CAUTION: Dont forget to add the semicolon again before removing the
; IDEFix or compatible IDE port doubler hardware or your machine may
; not boot anymore!
;
;MODULE Kickstart/A1200/ATAPIismajik

uncomment "MODULE Kickstart/A1200/ATAPIismajik" and it "should" work.

[Framiga]

i don't think is possible since the problem with the buffered interface, is during the installation.

It worth a try!

Anyway during the installation only the first channel is seen (ID0 and ID1).

[Framiga]

sorry for the OT but i have slowness accessing here to AORG
Can you please test if trying to access here with the IP works for you?

http://68.90.68.98/

thanks

ps i get the cPAnel saying

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