OS4 on 1200 partition problems

[A4000_Mad]

DH0 is not a dos disk...

I experienced a similar problem after setting up a hard drive recently. It turned out that the partition information had not been written to the RBD properly.

My initial suggestion is to do a little test......

Boot into the OS4 BootFloppy disk and OS4 CDrom as if you were going to do an installation (you'll just need to choose your Language, Country, Time zone and keyboard type as usual)

You should then come to the screen where you would normally double click on the 'AmigaOS4-Installation' icon. But instead of double clicking on that, just see if all your partitions are present and can be opened up.


And check what zipper said :-)

zipper's avatar wrote:
finland, the land of Piru

Well said! Our Amiga prince Piru deserves the recognition :pint:

[A4000_Mad]

Hmmm.... After booting into the BootFloppy & OS4 CDrom as described above, can you then *remove* them both and do a warm reset to boot into the OS4 partition of your hard drive?

(I mean to do this warm reset with OS4 partition set as highest boot priority by 'Media Toolbox' and *without* trying to go into the 'Amiga Early Startup Control')

[A4000_Mad]

StormLord wrote:
If thats the case, any suggestions to try?

Well, in my case I was able to just reload the OS4 template I had originally used and click on 'Save to disk'. Had I changed any of the partition sizes the data on them would have been lost as you will know. I guess it is possible that your partition information was simply saved properly this time round.

Anyway, congratulations whatever fixed it for you :pint: