efika and morphOS

[pyrre]

I need a little help
I am trying to install MOS to my efika.
But i am not able to format the HDD.
It mount DH0, and when i partition the hdd it mount another DH0. deleting and partitioning the hdd again mounts another DH0. now i have tree dh0 and one DH1.....

How do i remove mountpoints so i can format the actual DH0 drive?

[pyrre]

I boot from a USB pen. running the "morphos-2.2-efikainstall.img" and in wb screen clicking the installation button. following the setup. partitioning the hdd as i seem fit ( 10gig dh0 and 27 gig dh1).

After a reboot i now have only one DH0.
however...

Volume name: (unnamed)
volume is not initialized

when i try to format it i get:
"invalid volume name" you need to specify a name wich does not collide with other volume or device names.

And i cannot format the disk...

[pyrre]

I have an a1200 with os 3.9
However... i am not "steady" with HDtoolbox and using SFS...
I crashed the disk in the A1200 last time i tried...

[pyrre]

hehehe...
yea, strange isn't it :-D
You see, i am a hardware guy.
I love tinkering with hardware. (and i NEVER get rid of old hardware!!!)
But software scares the living {bleep} out of me.

Me and HDtoolbox never was any good friends when it came to install/use a file system other than FFS...
In my A1200 i have only 1 gig partitions on a 5 gig drive...
every time i go beyond 1 gig and using other file system than FFS i trash the partition and loose all the data...
luckily i keep backups on my zip disks...

[pyrre]

What SFS shoul i use?
SFS for 68k or os4 PPC?

UPDATE:
in my A1200, no matter what i do. The disk drive form the efika just wont show up.
It is partitioned with SFS. the sfs that comes with morphOS.
HDtoolbox finds it, and it finds the partitions as well.
But the drives so not want to show up on WB screen.


UPDATE 2:
The diskdrive from the efika end it partitions shows up in early start menu....

[pyrre]

It was formatted with MBR when i got it.
But after a session in the a1200 earlier it has RDB.
and RDB was selected in mos setup when i tried to partition the drive.
The only problem i can see now is to format the drive.
And i do not understand the format command in morphos.
I always get "unvalid arguments" or something alike.
Is there a GUI way of formatting the hdd in morphos setup?

EDIT:

Nevermind the format question.
i found it reading the MorphOS readme...
 :-D  :-D  :-D

[pyrre]

Now i have installed the OS..
typing:
ok boot ide:0 boot.img
and the system boots just fine.

However?

How do i make it autoboot?

[pyrre]

I just had to.
this posty is made from the efika running morphOS.

[pyrre]

too much info in one post for me to handle.. :-D
correct me if i am wrong..

step 1
setting the boot device
> setenv boot-device ide:0

step 2
setting the boot img
> setenv boot-file boot.img ramdebug

step 3
setting the  autoboot timer
> setenv auto-boot-timeout 5000

step 4
enabling the autoboot
>setenv auto-boot? true

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


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

[pyrre]

I felt 3 secs was to short...
maybe change that later.

I have some questions:
1: is all the amount of ram supposed to show up on sam disk?
Mine is only showing 69(now) and it is changing between 50, 60 and 71 mb...

2: when i do something, like resizing windows. The efika makes a strange noise. difficult to explain... But everything i do makes that noise...

3: in openfirmware is there a way of rebooting the computer?

4: The clock battery is dead, at least it is not holding the clock settings when powered of and on again.
Does that affect anything else than the clock?

[pyrre]

that is strange...
I strongly believed mac addresses were permanent...
luckily  i have not registered MorphOS yet.

But changing the hdd and installing linux, inserting a new battery and setting the mac address to its proper value.
And swap back to morphos hdd.
would that work?

@ britelite

Is it a kind of buzzing noise when something is happening on the screen? If that's the case, I've had the same problem and it was actually the PSU making the noise. After I changed the PSU the problem was gone.

Yes its a buzzing sound.