A1200 Startup Issues w/ Fresh WB 3.1

[mschafe]

Hi All.  I have an A1200 that I'm trying to get working.  It actually worked fine, until I realized the Workbench partition it was setup for is way to small to load additional tools and stuff.  I reloaded WB 3.1 from scratch, and now it gets as far as the desktop but always 'hangs' with the stopwatch.  I vaguely remember this happening way back in the day when I first got this working, and had to edit something in my startup-sequence file, but I think I've tried everything and it still does it.  I can do the basic startup to the CLI and it works fine, which is how I can get in an edit the file.  Any tips would be fantastic.

[mschafe]

Installed from original install disks, my plan was to apply the BetterWB package after it was up and running. The user startup has one commented item, so nothing that would be causing it to hang.

[mschafe]

Thanks for all the tips!  So, it has a 340mb IDE HDD installed (Areal A340).  It originally had a 7mb Workbench partition and a 200-something MB 'Work' partition.  I re-partitioned it for a 50/50 split and formatted them.  I installed from both my original set of WB 3.1 disks and from my Gotek.  It finishes installing successfully but on booting, it still gets stuck at the stopwatch after booting to the desktop.

Now for the strange part.. when I first was tinkering with this, I had the original install doing the exact same thing, and after messing with something in the startup-sequence I can't remember, it booted successfully.  The A1200 is stock otherwise.

[mschafe]

I will play around with the partitions a bit, but I'm not sure that's the issue since it did it before.  I'm thinking it could be an issue with the HDD, I'll have to see if I can dig up another 2.5" IDE device, but its not a 3.5" that's currently in it.  Gotek is in an external case, but it starts up the same whether or not its disconnected or connected.  Power supply is from a 600, but I did try my 500 PS to see if that made any difference but it didn't.