No post with sam400ep?

[carvedeye]

Puni/Void am i doing something wrong? did i do something to the hard drive?

[carvedeye]

im trying to boot from the cd rom it loads all the kickstart files etc.. but when the amigaos 4.1 screen appears the cd-rom spins for few seconds and hd led then i get no activity i have left it for a 10- 15 mins at a time to see if carrys on spinng but nothing happens it just hangs. i tried holding both mouse buttons down but it just continues to boot from the cd drive?

[carvedeye]

what if i was to install linux debian for the sam and then install amigaos 4.1 from there?

[carvedeye]

Ive made a video of the sam booting up and the amigaos 4.1 trying to install, uploading it to youtube

[carvedeye]

yeah thats how its setup but still just hangs? all i want to do is play on my new miggy

[carvedeye]

heres a link for the sam video ive made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dVXVnwKrQ

[carvedeye]

did anyone check out the video?

[carvedeye]

how do i boot without startup sequence?

[carvedeye]

yeah but the manuals are  not as detailed as they could be

[carvedeye]

well it's midnight and ive got to goto bed for work tomorrow so will give it another try tomorrow afternoon night night all

[carvedeye]

Could it be because I have sata2 hard drive connected? Or is it capable of running both the sata2 and sata1 drives?

[carvedeye]

Well I just don't know what I have done for it not to install? I feel like banging my head against a wall lol. I just don't understand how when I first tried to install os 4.1 it took me all the way to partitioning the hd ( but I stupidly decided to restart the system and try again ) but now it just hangs on the amigaos 4.1 screen and then get no drive activity and really don't want to go out and buy another hd.

[carvedeye]

Does the Live CD work when booting it without a HD connected?

I see that you're using the new HD you bought. What happens if you try the old one again?

Have you tried the elimination method? Removing one piece of equipment at the time to see if you can locate the error?

Are you dual-booting with Linux. If yes, does Linux run?

I agree it is very strange that it worked before, but now it doesn't after you did that reset.

I don't know, I'm at work at the moment but will give it a go. Yeah I've tried both  hard drives still nothing?

[carvedeye]

could it be that i need update uboot loader?

[carvedeye]

I saw the video just now. How about booting without startup-sequence, type "set echo on" in the shell and "execute s:startup-sequence" and then see where in the startup-sequence it hangs?

I don't have a SAM or OS4.1, but that's what I would do on OS3, OS4.0, MorphOS, AROS etc.

Managed to boot without startup sequence and it hangs on c: Iprefs?

[carvedeye]

Heheh!! I think we've nailed it. Look here:

"Hi all,

I just wanted to tell that if your OS4 machine stops at the bootpic, you may check the date in Uboot.
Halt at the Uboot prompt and set the correct date and time using:

date MMDDhhmmYYYY

When the date is completely wrong, OS4 doesn't boot because of a known bug of one OS4 component."

:lol:

In the video you posted, I noticed the date was completely wrong. You are not in 2077 man.

How do i halt the boot process?