Sam460CR + OS4.1 Final Edition question!

[Spectre660]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39480&forum=33#743577

amigakit wrote

@Everblue @Spectre660

Hello

The RadeonHD 1.2 is a free upgrade for customers who have bought v1 from us.

It is not included in the Final Edition. We recently commissioned a new Lite Edition of the RadeonHD driver.

We  are working with ACube/Hyperion currently to enable a Lite Edition of  the RadeonHD for emergency boot purposes of the AmigaOS CD.

Nothing "murky" here- sorry- cannot understand your comment.

@everblue

Forgot to add that RadeonHD supports selected 5000, 6000, 7000 and R5, R7, R9 cards: see Amiwest Press Release for more detail:

http://www.a-eon.biz/PDF/News_Release_RadeonHD24.pdf

[Spectre660]

You appear not to understand what the issue is so you downplay it.

Amigakit have answered what is being done to address the issue.
A special version of the driver so people who buy a new Sam460cr with AmigaOS 4.1 FE  can boot up their new purchase without having to have a Radeon HD 4000 series card. Once they get it booted they can install the paid 1.2 version of the driver if they have purchased it. without this you
you would find it difficult to boot to install the 1.2 driver .
so be nice when people raise relevant issues.
It is being addressed by A-eon,Acube and Hyperion  because it IS an issue,

OS4.1 comes with the Radeon HD driver; even if it was an old release, the update is free.  So be good for goodness sake, and enjoy!

[Spectre660]

You can do a custom boot SDcard or USB thumbdrive if you have an empty bootable SFS/00 rawimage. I used Windows to write the rawimage to the SDCard and Aros x86 to copy the AmigaOS 4.1 CD contents to the SDCard then add the new driver saved to a Fat32 formatted USB thumbdrive to the SFS/00 SDcard. not a problem for me but not something for a new user buying what should be a polished product. Plus I used a working system to create the rawimage file for possible future problems. I have an unique perspective on this as I ran a Sam440ep-flex with the RadeonHD driver for over two years. During this time my Radeon 9250 went bad so I would not have been able to boot my system using the the original install cd.

Thank you for 're-clarifying that issue again.  Since the CDs are not copy protected, one could just build a CD with the correct versions of whatever driver they wanted, at least this is what I did to install Ubuntu with the install guide, updated kernels and such; or is this in need of someone else doing it for you?  I don't know, I forget...