efika and morphOS

[zylesea]

@ Pyrre

Is your hd really new or was it already formate with another computer? if so, you have to to wipe out the MBR and apply an RDB.

from morphos-team.net helpdesk:

Q: I want to set-up a SFS partition, but its not available in HDConfig and iWizard. How is this working?
A: The problem is that you selected MBR as partition table which is not very flexible and no even contains a real checksum. The solution is to change the boot block type to RDB. This can be done by using right mouse button above the hard drive image. In the newly appeared context menu you can select RDB. After this is done, SFS can easily be chosen via the GUI.

But if you really want to set up the hd with your 1200 use ffs for a start, and reformat the partition with SFS once the hdd is reswapped to the Efika. But I suggest to try to solve the prob with the efika. Don't mess with OS4 sfs and MorphOS, it won't end well.  

[zylesea]

pyrre wrote:

My "bios" battery is dead. it is not able to hold the time settings. will that affect anything other than time settings?

Yes it has an impact f you want to register MorphOS. W/o battery the MAC adress of the NIC changes often to aribrary values.
Get a new battery, boot te Efika up, type ifconfig into a shell and compare if the MAC address is equal to the oe prited on the label attached o the NIC/usb port.
If it is equal insert the new battery carefully into the battery holder (while the Efika is running!!! Be caereful!!!). If the MAC doesn't have the desired value, power the Efikadown (unplug the PSU!) and restart again. Fro my experience the cahnce to get the origial MAC is 1:8 (or a bit less). So, statistically you need 8 attempts. If you don't want to register MorphOS and don't use a network configuration where identification is done by the MAC you don't need to bother.  

EDIT:
and another question:
Why do i only have 73mb ram?
I thought the efika had 128mb

There is 128 MB o the board, but the OS requires some RA itself. You can lower the ammount if you chose a simpler MUI theme (Mehalanxi or how it is called is fine) and reduce coor deepth to 16 bit. Don't open too many screens. Unfortunately RAM is a quite limited resource on the Efika.

[zylesea]

@ Britelite

In my case it toggeld to the right MAC every now and then. But I haven't managed to discover the underlying mechanism - the 1:8 was a raw guess. Don't forget to not only reboot, but disconnect the Efika from power, so that capacitors all get discharged.
But I agree it sucks (why on earth the batteries used for teh Efeika run so fast out of voltage and, 2nd, why on freaking earth does teh NIC loses its MAC then (given teh idea that the MAC should be a *constant*)?!).
If setting the MAC manually doesn't help, maybe you can just insert the new battery and get a new constant MAC and ask some team member on #morphos if a new reg key can be issued for your new, then constant (as long as the battery lives!) MAC.

Edit: Britelite, note the pm I sent you.