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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2008, 08:07:14 PM »
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installing from the HD mirrored CD.

You have to tweak a lot.

Really? It seemed to find the files on the HDD without any changes (the partition was called "AmigaOS 4.0 Install CD").

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Good luck :-)

Thanks :-)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2008, 08:12:04 PM »
The volume name of the CD of my copy of OS4 is "AmigaOS 4.0 Install CD". If I boot from the floppy without the CD inserted it asks me to insert a volume with that name.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2008, 08:20:09 PM »
No, there is no OS3.x installed on the drive. Just the contents of the OS4 CD. Think of the hard drive as an exact duplicate of the CD so that the unmodified OS4 floppy can find the files it needs to get to the installer.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2008, 08:31:37 PM »
Ok, I'll take the hard drive out of the Amiga, connect it back to my Mac and install SFS from within UAE. Then I'll copy the CD contents on to it and try again. If that doesn't work I'll remove the BVision and see if that works.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2008, 08:37:14 PM »
Will do - but not tonight :-)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2008, 07:16:49 AM »
@CLS2086
Thanks for the suggestion but TBH that sounds more complicated than using UAE to copy the files to the drive. I'll consider your suggestion if that doesn't work though.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2008, 07:19:47 PM »
Well I have had some success :-D

I re-partitioned the hard drive with SFS and re-copied the OS4 files, but unfortunately it still wouldn't display anything on the VGA monitor. I started thinking that the BVision must be dead, so I removed it. When I booted again, sure enough there was the OS4 installer on an AGA screenmode!

Then I noticed some bare wires coming from the A1200 motherboard, right underneath where the BVision would have been. They were connected to the floppy connector, and my heart sank when I thought of 5v going somewhere they shouldn't. I removed the cable and re-connected the BVision, booted up, and up popped the OS4 installer on my VGA monitor!

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
:pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:

Can I assume at this point that the PPC definitely works?

I clicked through the installer (actually just Locale Prefs...) and it seemed very slow, and after the Locale Prefs had closed I was left with a blank Workbench Screen. This might be a weirdness due to the installation files not being located on the CD, so if someone can confirm that the presence of Workbench at all means that the PPC is working then I'll invest some money in this machine and get a 44->40->40 way IDE cable.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2008, 07:26:29 PM »
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Red then blue screen when booting OS4

It's a sign! ;-) :-P

:lol:

Actually, now it's booting it goes red then blue then purple. Since red and blue combine to make purple, I choose to believe that this A1200 is trying to tell us that OS4 and MOS can live in peace and harmony ;-)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2008, 07:33:15 PM »
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Hi,

take time to check the bppc firmware too !  ;-)

I will once I have got the OS installed. But I don't think I can do that without a new IDE cable, and I don't want to buy it until I know the PPC is definitely working ;-)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2008, 07:47:08 PM »
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its working!

OS4 starts using the 68K to load the bootloader (all 68K until now filesystem also) then reboots and since then only the PPC is used.

Brilliant!!!!! Thanks!

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Now start to reduce every eye candy like gradients and antialias, use a 16 bit WB and enjoy it! :-)

Well I can't install it yet since my buffered interface seems to be incompatible, so I need to order an IDE cable and then I can install it. Then the fun begins :-)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2008, 07:59:42 PM »
Hmm, so if I could make an image of the CD, change that file, burn the CD and boot from that, could I use the buffered interface during installation?

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2008, 08:16:20 PM »
I'll try it, since the "problem" seems to be just that it can't tell whether there is an IDEfix is there or not, so it is disabled. If you *know* there is one there, hopefully enabling it will allow you to use it during installation. I'll try it!

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2008, 08:31:02 PM »
Thanks! Does it still work even after it has rebooted and actually tried to boot OS4 from the CD?

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2008, 08:42:56 PM »
Oh ok. Well I built a CD image with all of the files from the OS4 CD except the A1200 kicklayout, then added a modified version of that file with the ATAPI device line uncommented. It's just finalising the CD then I'll try it and see if it works!

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2008, 09:07:35 PM »
Well that didn't work. Much as I hate to do it, I think I'm going to have to buy a 44->40->40 way IDE cable just to get the OS installed :roll:

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 25, 2008, 01:41:19 PM »
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sorry for the OT

NP - there was a good chance you'd catch me on this thread ;-)

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but i have slowness accessing here to AORG

It's fine for me (England).

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Can you please test if trying to access here with the IP works for you?

http://68.90.68.98/

It works, but I also get that warning page (only when using the IP address though).

Edit - 7000 posts :-D

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