Installation of Amiga OS 4 on SFS... blank screen when installed...

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This is actually a long running problem since August last year really and I still haven't solved it, but the guys at irc.abime.net have suggested I ask here as there is more chance of an Amiga OS 4 user who might have had the same problem.

The original post thread is at:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39072

But here is the latest post by myself, hopefully someone here can help:

Well guys, I finally went about getting SFS installed on this machine after getting my 040 PPC board upgraded to an 060 - I installed SFS as per Killer Gorilla's excellent instructions and it works brilliantly for OS3.9..

Installing SFS allowed the Installer to start (after I resized OS3.9's partition from 250mb to 160), and it appeared to allow OS 4 to be installed on the second partition.

It wouldn't start however with SFS on there, it would give me the usual blue, then red, then purple screens and do nothing... I then reformatted to FFS and it installed ok again and started, but OS 4 threw a load of errors about the SFS partitions on the machine.... plus with the additional side effect of the OS 4 FFS partition being 100% full and saying that it needed to be validated!!

I really don't know why I can't get this running again on this drive... 3.9 runs like a dream on the 060 with SFS now but surely OS 4 should work too!

I also set down and tried MorphOS again - not much luck here either... same old black screen...... arrrrgggh!! I guess I'm not good at the whole amiga thing anymore!

Anyone have any good suggestions for OS 4 and SFS?

Thanks
Chris

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Hi Mechy,

The hardware I have is:

Amiga 1200 with
Blizzard 060 PPC 603+ 144mb RAM
BlizzardVision
4-way IDE adapter (unbuffered I think!)
20 GB hard drive
Prism2 wireless card.
DCE Scan Magic

I do have a Scan doubler, I think have selected 31Khz mode, but because I use the BVision, I don't think its a problem.

I have selected the partition as SFS/00 ..

Would it have something to do with SFS installed on the RDB for the other 68k partitions (i.e. OS 3.9)?

Cheers
Chris

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Could it have something to do with the size of the partitions then?

DH0: which has Workbench 3.9 on it, is the first partition - its allocated 160mb..  

AOS4: is the second partition for OS 4 and it is allocated 500mb...  and so on..

Cheers
Chris

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@redfox

Thanks for the advice - You are definitely right there, you have to keep it as simple as possible.  I've been listening to too many folks about SFS and all sorts of stuff...

Anyways, I had posted this over at EAB also, and Calgor there suggested that I should be picking the FFS included with OS4...  I'd forgotten completely that OS4 came with a later version.

To cut a long story short, I reinstalled again, this time making sure I created the partition and formatted it with the new FFS in OS4.  Low and behold, the whole lot worked!!

There is a little side effect though - it seems OS4 has trouble reading my SFS partitions - comes up with Read errors all the time.  I think these are false positives though as when I boot into 3.9, the errors are gone.  It is very strange.

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It is 1.277

Chris