Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD

[motorollin]

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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moto

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Framiga wrote:
sorry for the OT

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

Framiga wrote:
but i have slowness accessing here to AORG

It's fine for me (England).

Framiga wrote:
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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moto

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Framiga wrote:
ok thanks moto!

NP! :-)

Framiga wrote:
how are going your experiments! :-)

I'm waiting for an IDE cable so I can get OS4 installed (without it I can't have a HDD and CD-ROM connected at the same time unless I use the IDEfix, which of course doesn't work).

Framiga wrote:
btw ... is your A1200 an Amiga Technologies a1200?

I don't know since it's in a tower. Is it shown on the mobo? Thanks for the info though. I'll keep trying to make a modified OS4 install CD to get around the problem, though my motivation to do so will probably disappear when I've got the OS installed ;-)

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moto

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Yeah that's probably going to be the easiest option. I've asked Amigakit to make me a 44 female -> 40 male cable which will allow me to plug any IDE cable in to the A1200. Should make things much easier!

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moto

[motorollin]

Right! I've got my 44 female -> 40 male IDE cable now (thanks Amigakit!) so I have connected a standard 40 way IDE cable to the A1200 directly to the motherboard and I can still use two devices. So I have now got a HDD and a CD-ROM connected to the Amiga without the need for the buffered interface. And guess what? It works! OS4 is now installing :-D

Still having problems with the BVision. It seems to be working as it doesn't use AGA when the BVision is connected, but I can't get a display up on the VGA monitor. It did work for a while, so maybe it just wasn't connected properly. It's disconnected now while OS4 is installing, and I'll try re-connecting it afterwards and try it again.

Thanks for all the help guys!
:pint:

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moto

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I gave the BVision connectors a clean (just blew in to them) and also noticed some thermal paste on the BVision board itself. Is this stuff electrically conductive? I wiped it off anyway, and made sure the BVision was firmly pushed on to the connector and screwed in, and when I booted from the OS4 CD, hey presto it worked! I'm now installing OS4 :-D

How do I find out what speed the PPC is? When I type "cpu" in to a shell in OS4 it just says it's a 603e. Is there a way to get more specific info?

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moto

[motorollin]

Thanks! Scout is a 68k app and I have no idea how the 68k emulation functions in OS4. Will it be able to run inside the emulated 68020 processor and report on real hardware?

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moto

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@Framiga
Thanks! I didn't know there was an OS4 version.

@A4000_Mad
I've been meaning to have a look at the new Early Startup screen, and I'm also curious to know what "Boot with no s-s" looks like now. I'll have another play later :-)

I did find out the speed through Scout, and it's a 166MHz PPC with an 040.

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moto