HOW do you handle multiboot ? with OS3.9/MOS/OS4 ???

[keropi]

Damn it to hell!
how do you get by? It sux!
I have an OS3.9 partition, priority 0
MOS partition , priority -5
and OS4 , priority -6
all was fine until OS4...

I could keep my nice kickflash contents, and boot MOS whenever I wanted via early start-up menu... now with OS4 I had to erase completelly kickflash. and I select the OS4 partition in ealry-startup menu, it reboots, reads from disk for a while and then the drive just clicks with an empty screen. if I give a priority 1 on OS4 partition, I can boot again OS4 but NO 3.9... it just gives some recovable errors...
what is to blame I think, are the warm reboots 3.9/4.0 do that really screw-up the kickstart...
what did you do to solve the problem?
ofcourse I don't want an OS4 boot-only amiga...
and where is the OS4 kickstart for the kickflash btw?
 :-?  :-?

[keropi]

is there some sort of restriction in partitions?
I mean should they be UNDER the 2GB limit? 4GB limit? damn it!

[keropi]

what? noone has any probs? it all works great for you??? Am I the only one with those probs?  :getmad:  :getmad:  :getmad:

[keropi]

@Crumb
no it won't load OS4 "normaly"
3.9 boots fine , but since OS4 does a WARM-REBOOT, then on the 2nd reboot it will try and read from the 3.9 partition and the result is that NO OS will boot OK until the next COLD-BOOT.
and I believe I have the latest CSPPC flash, since I use a G-Rex4000D with it and MOS works nicelly   :-)

[keropi]

thanks lord_rover, I completelly missed that part!
and thanks crumb!  :-D

it would be nice to have some sort of loader in the flash of kickflash, giving the option to boot normally 3.9 with flash-contents, or OS4/MOS but with disabled contents...

[keropi]

what EXACLTY do I modify on my KickLayout-A4000 file, so OS4 knows that it's partition is OS4:  :-?  :-?  :-?

[keropi]

noone?  :-o

[keropi]

thanks! will try it later!

also, does the OS4 boot partition need to be in the first 2GB of the HD (like the 3.9 needs?)

[keropi]

damnit... I must re-arrange my disk then!