Amiga 2000 SCSI boot probelm, any ideas?

[Ral-Clan]

Have you tried turning on the A2000 with a CD-ROM already in the drive?

Also, play with the BOOTPRI (boot priority) function in the RDB of the SCSI hard drive.  Make it trump the CD-ROM and see if that helps.

Also, try putting the SCSI hard drive's ID to a lower number than the CD-ROM.  i.e. 0 or 1.

[Ral-Clan]

Is there a way to make the CD-ROM drive non-bootable from the early startup menu (can't remember).  Try that.

It sounds to me like the Amiga is looking for a disk in the CD-ROM drive to boot the Amiga, and only gives up after many, many tries.  (but that still does not explain why it doesn't then try to boot from the hard drive).

Also see if there is a jumper on the GVP board that allows extra time for drives to spin-up upon turning the Amiga on.  My A2091 has this jumper.

Actually, my Amiga usually needs a warm re-boot after turning it on.  It just hangs with a black screen most times, but works fine after a CTRL-A-A.  Been this way for years, and I think has something to do with the drives needing time to spin up before being recognized by the SCSI card.

[Ral-Clan]

There is also something in the RDB that can be set so that the Amiga sees that drive and looks no further on the SCSI chain for bootable drives.  I think it's the LASTDEV flag.  So, the Amiga would look up the chain of SCSI devices, see this flag on your hard drive, and look no further before booting (i.e. it wouldn't try to access the CD-ROM if it was on a "higher" SCSI ID).