Amithlon probs

[bhoggett]

Blomberg wrote:
I just finished installing patches, new kernel and Boing bag 2 on my Amithlon system along with some small additions like Magicmenu and ... no that's it, I think  :-D

Now I can't reboot my 'Amiga*!!!!
Neither alt+amiga+amiga nor F12+R/C works anymore.
Now, I don't really know where in the installation process it stopped working, because I did it all in one go.
I've checked my patches dir for 'doubles' and generally ploughed through manuals, readme's and FAQ's but I haven't come up with anything yet  :-?

Anyone had similar problems (and sorted them out)?

Another thing, I keep getting an error message from PlayCD when ... trying to play a CD  :-D
It says something like no CD-rom drive could be found and to 'use the options DOSDEV or DEVICE and UNIT' to sort it out.
Where do I find those?

At what point do things stop working? I mean, you say the Amiga won't boot any more, but does it go through the emulation startup stages?

Might be worth posting the question to the mailing list as well.

About PlayCD.  The CDs on Amithlon appear under cdrom.device, and will be allocated from unit 0 upwards.  You will be able to tell which is which with the HDToolBox, when you get it to boot again  ;-)

You have tried to catch the early startup menu, right?

[bhoggett]

Blomberg wrote:

Hmm, I did this exactly as stated (assuming that unit=adr in HDtoolbox) but it didn't work. I also tried using amithlon.device and the corresponding unit but nothing there either.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that the drive is actually a DVD-rom?
Because I also tried with my CD-RW but that didn't work either (but the fact that it had no name in HDToolbox, led me to think that it might not).

Not to my knowledge. I also find it strange that your CD-RW is not recognised at all, unless it sits on an unsupported SCSI card.

When you say it doesn't work, do you mean you still get the same error as before?

NOTE: If you're just not hearing sound, that's a different issue altogether. You need to run the AC97mixer to enable the audio pass-thru for the audio card.