Minimig Setup Help

[Dwyloc]

Thanks so much for all the great info! Must confess I'm a little surprised it won't boot straight out the box...

Do I recall that you can use an Amiga to update the PIC? I'm looking at Mac compatible USB serial adapters and bootloader software but it's looking like a fair bit of confusion as to what works.  I'm wondering if it might be easier to use my A600.  Is there any bootloader that will work with the Amiga by any chance?

http://aminet.net/package/comm/misc/tinyulMUI on aminet should allow you to update the PIC fimware to the latest version with an Amiga,  I have not tried it as I just used my Thinkpads docking station with a real serial port under Windows XP.

You can find links to the lasted PIC fimware here http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=336

and the latest FPGA fimeware for use with that firmware linked here http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=397

[Dwyloc]

you could try and run that program under wine.

Or do the update with an Amiga, OS4.x or MorphOS computer with the program on Aminet I linked to earlier :-)

http://aminet.net/package/comm/misc/tinyulMUI

[Dwyloc]

Not possible to boot from harddisc in Kickstart 1.3 ?

Booting A minimig from HD like an A600 needs the version of scsi.device found in kickstart 2.05 or higher to boot of the internal HD controller.

It is possible to create a patched version of kickstart 1.3 that contains the newer version of the scsi.device found in kickstart 2.05 and higher but its much easier to just boot of an ADF image that mounts the harddisk partition and makes the required assigns before execute ing the startup sequence found on the mounted HD partition.

IDE adapters for the A500 that add an A600/A1200 style IDE port also have the same kickstart version restrictions.

[Dwyloc]

How come an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 will boot from an Z-II Trumpcard 500 (SCSI) then ..?

It ought to be possible to accomplish the same unmodified operation with Minimig/Arcade..

AmigaOS versions:
"Kickstart Version 1.3 improved little on its predecessor, the most notable change being auto booting from hard drives."

Yes its quite simple you just need to create your own AUTOCONFIG (tm) boot rom like all the other KS1.3 compatible autobooting HD's like the one you linked and include the scsi.device as found in the kickstart 2.05 rom or right your own replacement ;-)