A2000

[just4funuk]

Ok the ongoing A2000 rebuild (I Wish I had never started)

Amiga 2000 already had
Amiga 2000 keyboard
ICDSCSI 2080  
Fusion Forty
Amiga 2000 Kickstrat 3.1 Roms
Fusion Forty Roms
Amiga Workbench 3.1
Amiga Workbench 3.5

Above purchased over last 9 months except actual amiga 2000 been sitting gathering dust for 2-3 years in bedroom.

Have now got

Amiga 2000
Kickstart 3.1 Roms
ICDSCSI 2080
Fusion Forty + 20MB Ram with new Roms (Workbench 3.1 now sees Fusion Forty again).(Thanks to TJlazer).

But still after trying to install clean installation of Workbench 3.1 I am still no nearer getting machine up and running. Have to laugh or would cry.

Wish I had just got an emulator (LOL)

Not had much free time to look at this at the moment.

Boots Ok from Floppy if stop ADSCSI auto booting (by holding mouse button on boot) .Can then mount the ADSCSI partitions after booting from floppy. But if try to boot from HD A2000 power light just flashes and machine just shows a guru message.

If anyone out there has a A2000 with ADSCSI card and FusionForty running Workbench 3.1 or 3.5 Please could you give me a copy of your startup-sequence as this is where mine is having the problem I suspect.




 

[just4funuk]

If Use workbench 3.1 startup-sequence machine gets stuck in loop.

If remove startup-sequence from HD0:s/

Machine boots from internal harddrive type loadwb and wb is loaded if
replace startup-sequence with one off ADSCSI installation disk
startup-sequence.hd saved to HD0:s/startup-sequence
machine will boot and fail on Fastmemoryfirst (Workbench 3.1 does not have this) Hence why it fails.

If then type Loadwb
WB loads.

Really do need to look at startup-sequence and see what in the workbench 3.1 version is causing machine to fail once this is removed from startup-sequence suspect machine will boot correctly and wont need any more editing.

Could be wrong
Wouldn't be the first time.


Watch out for next installment.




 

[just4funuk]

Altered startup-sequence so fast mem first is disabled also deleted some scrip that checked if harddrive was present if so run another startup script.Also put loadwb at end of startup script.

Machine now boots from power up from hardrive and workbench is loaded.

just need help now configuring startup sequence to add assign commands. So amiga OS knows where to look for iconx and any other OS commands machine tries to run instead of error message saying cant find application bla bla bla.

Also get guru when run avail but this might be because avail command pos not 100% supported by Fusion Forty Accelerator memory setup as it does return results after error.

CPU command reports 68040.Have reinstalled IDEFIX 97 and CDrom drive is now available.

Have copied contents of boot partition to anoter partition just incase anything I do damages it can then reboot from floppy and copy back.(Saves time).

So once OS 3.1 is running resonably will try to install OS 3.5.

Any tips or links on assigning app paths in startup-sequence much appreciated.

bye for now