Amiga 4000T not booting

[Kristian95]

Cool, thanks, I'll give that a try
Btw, do you know how I can get Blizkick modules working in an eFlash card ??

[Kristian95]

I've seen those, and once, when / if I run my CF cards by the CSPPC I'll probably get one of those
Meanwhile, I tried again, using your timer as a guide and again with no success at all *sigh* I guess the boot menus for my P4 and CSPPC cards are well hidden!!

[Kristian95]

I managed to make the boot sequence halt using the Esc key, but I got no image, well there was one! grey line in the top of the screen and the monitor reported running at 31.7 kHz, I did this before knowing the space bar thing, I wonder whether pressing space will help there?

EDIT: I am way too much of a noob to try making my own kick-roms... I wouldn't even know where to start on that one

EDIT2: I now managed to get the early boot menu Now I try figuring out what ID my SCSI CD-ROM drive has... there are 4 jumpers : : : : and no. 2 is closed ( : I : : ) I figured that would make it SCSI unit 1 or 2 but no dice when I set it up like that in the CSPPC menu... at least if I only have to do stuff in the SCSI menu, I honestly don't know

[Kristian95]

Ok figured things out and have the CD-ROM drive working *yay*
It doesn't read my OS 3.9 cd though... it read my eFlash one and a random audio cd too.... but no icon for the audio cd nor for the OS 3.9 cd (I suspect it is treated as an audio cd ??)
How can I make my OS 3.9 cd accessible from OS 3.9 on my miggy and how can I set up icons for audio cd's ??

[Kristian95]

ah thanks for the tooltype help I'll get right on that
Btw, there is a CDFS menu item in the CSPPC menu, would I be able to alter the things I'd do in the tooltypes part in WB ??

[Kristian95]

@sniken

Sure, what I needed to do was first to flash the ROM of my CSPPC card to the newest version (4.71) to have a boot menu at all. Then, when booting I pressed the Esc key to get the boot to stop, I then had a black screen with a single white line on top, I then pressed the space bar to change from 31 kHz to 15 kHz display of the boot menu and voila, there it was

I haven't been able to access the PIV menu at all yet, and I think it may be due to it having way old ROM version, but some people say it should have a boot menu regardless... we'll see how that one plays out as I have tried flashing the ROM to v 7.4 but the program stalled (I even tried twice) prior to flashing the ROM with the floppy light on without any response from the floppy or computer.

[Kristian95]

I have tried flashing the PIV ROM several times, both with v 7.4 and (when 7.4 stalled) 7.1

It writes:

Board #1 at $42000000

then nothing happens.... anyone know how long the flash procedure should take ?? Flashing the CSPPC took less than 30 seconds and at no time did it make me feel it had stalled.

[Kristian95]

I just added this to my CD0 tooltype:

DEVICE=cybppc.device
UNIT=2
ACTIVATE=1

It still does not read my AmigaOS 3.9 cd what else could be wrong ??

[Kristian95]

ah, ok thanks!!

[Kristian95]

@MozzerFan

Hmmmm ok... I just wish I had an idea of how long I should expect it to look like it's hanging :-?
I have interrupted the flashprocess 3 times now, I think it hasn't even begun flashing when it appears to be hanging on my system

[Kristian95]

@ MozzerFan

I tried editing the CD0 file itself, I was allowed to open it, but after editing I was not allowed to save the file.
I also noticed that the file claimed that these things (DEVICE, UNIT and ACTIVATE) would be handled by the icon tooltype.
Btw, if I double click on the CD0 icon I don't get the "Unit already mounted" explanation... could this be because I have not installed the CSPPC SCSI disk ??

EDIT: If the CD-ROM drive is unit 2 (in 0 to 15) in the CSPPC boot menu it should also be unit 2 in tooltypes in WB, right ??

[Kristian95]

dang I guess it doesn't like the OS cd then because all other cd's play fine... well I only tried two others, my eFlash cd, which shows a nice icon, and an audio cd, which did not show any icon, but cd player could play the cd...

[Kristian95]

hmmm, I just checked, when I double-clicked the cd0 icon it said "cannot open file" or something similar. It turns out there is no cd0 file only the cd0.info file I hope someone can help me out getting me that file

[Kristian95]

Uh good question, the one that is standard when you install OS 3.9, I think it is CDFS, but am not sure...

EDIT: I think it is CacheCDFS

[Kristian95]

I only have the cd0.info file, the file cd0 is not present

for instance there is both a pc0 and a pc0.info file.

I'll doublecheck the OS cd for the file and meanwhile do an WinUAE install to see if I can get hold of the file that way

I did remove the CD-ROM from the CSPPC menu after which it didn't read any cd's in WB, I think it's because the cd0 file is missing

[Kristian95]

Thanks for all the help guys, I got the file and put placed it on my Amiga and lo and behold, now it works
I can read my OS 3.9 CD