Pegasos on the way - yay!

[KennyR]

Mine don't have a blue connector, but they do have a tag saying telling you what IDE socket to plug it into - master, slave or controller. The controller tag is blue.

[KennyR]

I'm not at home but I'm fairly sure it didn't have a blue connector.
Could this stop the whole thing from powering up?

Nope. The Peg should power up whether it has HDs in it or not.

[KennyR]

The only way I know to see if the board has power is to plug in a network cable or a USB device such as a keyboard or mouse. As for the tower - sorry, I don't know how to test a ATX tower, except maybe with a voltmeter or such.

[KennyR]

They should show that they're being supplied power, I think. Lit LEDs, beeps, etc. Then again, maybe they would need an init message to power up from the USB stack in the host OS, so I'm not sure. If your PC is ATX try turning it off at the front (but not at the back) and connecting the devices to see what they do when supplied with power.

[KennyR]

Yeah, I just tried it too with my Pegasos (after raking around in a very small cupboard for half an hour to find a USB digital camera - ouch!). Power isn't supplied to the camera until poseidon is run on the Pegasos. Bugger.

[KennyR]

I've emailed them, asking if there is any way I can test the board. Last night I connected up only the board, cpu & graphics card. Something I hadn't noticed before was that the fan on the graphics card *does* spin up. It's so quiet compared to the PC and facing downwards, that I hadn't noticed it.
The output to the monitor is still blank though. (light grey/white screen)

It sounds as if your DIMMs aren't being detected. If you got some nullmodem serial output you would be able to tell for sure.

[KennyR]

Use any term program. AmTerm on Aminet will do the trick.

[KennyR]

Peg->Amiga: 9 pin female to 25 pin female cable

Peg-> PC: depends, Edit: 9pin female to 9pin female is most likely (some PCs have a mix of serial ports).

A Laplink cable has both 9 pin and 25 pin on each end, and you can use whatever one you like. I recommend this cable.

But whatever you do, you MUST make sure it is nullmodem and not just a straight serial, or you will fry the chips of your Amiga!

[KennyR]

Will the terminal prog tell me what's causing it or do you think it's the RAM stick?

You don't need the terminal prog any more. The only reason it was needed was in case no memory could be allocated to init the gfx card to show the openfirmware screen in the first place. The nullmodem isn't useless however, especially if you want to network your machines (or debug).

So your RAM seems to work, luckily enough. Question is, is it all detected or just half of it? You won't know until you boot MOS (or look at the serial debug).

error: error while trying to load or boot

Could it be my aging CDROM?

Very possibly. I hear people had problems with the Peg not recognising old drives - not older drives, old drives - ie. 1998 and before.

You're making progress. Bet you're glad you didn't send the Peg back now, eh? ;-)

And the problem was probably a loose CPU card. I thought my board was broken too, for a while. You have to make sure that thing is really in there.

[KennyR]

Would I be able to transfer files from the A1200 to the pegasos or PC this way?

Of course, a serial network. Don't ask me how to set it up though, it's something I've never done.

[KennyR]

I'm not an expert on the MorphOS low level, but it sounds to me like the boot image is failing to unpack. Contact Genesi immediately.

[KennyR]

I only encountered one problem with the Miami installer. It stalled, and the error message said that I needed MUI v3.8 or later. I knew that I had that () so I simply deleted that part (checking for MUI) of the installer script.

After that it worked flawlessly.

And how would one download Miami if they didn't have it on CD?

[KennyR]

Wilse, you can also partition and format the drive using your Amiga (the boot partition must be FFS of course), copy the files from the CD onto it, and put it back into the Pegasos to boot without the CD-ROM.

[KennyR]

The final line of output reads:

> f_go: error..machine_go returns

Any idea what that means?

No, sorry. If you have an IRC client, fire it up and go to irc.vapor.com #morphos and ask there. Someone there will definitely know. I can't find anything on the mailing list about it.