Installing OS 3.9, please help.

[ByteRyder]

Hi,

Please help me out.

I recently acquired an A1200T equipped with a Blizzard 68060-128MB but I'm having much trouble trying to install OS 3.9 on it.

I've created a boot emergency disk, however whenever I boot from the disk I end up getting a "invalid resident library" error, and after that WB freezes on a grey background.

It doesn't matter if I have installed WB 3.1 or 3.5 or an empty HD it always ends up with the same result.

I've searched on the forums for other people with the same problem, but it seems the solution to their problem doesn't solve mine.

Tried every version of 040/060 libraries you can find, copied workbench.library to the disk, changed setpatch versions, doesn't matter what I do it always end up with an invalid resident library error although it has 3.1 ROMS installed.

When I install OS 3.9 directly from 3.1/3.5 environment installation goes fine but when it reboots in the end it goes on guru error cycle but sometimes I get "Not a DOS disk on device HD0".

Could it be because I'm using SFS and OS 3.9 tries to load FFS? doesn't make sense to me.

I usually don't give up on problems but I've been trying to solve this one for like a month now and I can't think of anything else.

What can you tell me from your experience?

Many thanks.

[ByteRyder]

The partition where you install it must not be over 2GB.

Oh.. really? why? That could be the problem then, since I'm trying to install it on a 14GB partition.

Does it boot normally from the AmigaOS3.1 floppies ?

Yes, it boots normally from 3.1 floppies and I can now access the partition where OS3.9 went, just can't boot from it.

Do you have zorro or other expansion cards on the system besides the Blizzard accelerator ? If so remove them, maybe some are causing the problem.
Are you sure the HD is ok ?
What controler are you using, IDE, SCSI ? Is the SCSI chain well terminated ?

Anyway, you should 1st better describe your system for us to be able to help you but those are the things I'd try given your simptoms.

The computer is a A1200Towered 3.1 ROMS w/ Bliizzard 060-128mb + 4x Way IDE Buffered Interface + CDRW + 120GB 2.5 IDE HD, nothing else.

I don't think it's a problem with the IDE connections because I can access de harddrive from 3.1 floppies and the 3.9 emergency disk mounts the CD drive fine and only later I get the invalid resident library error.

Anyway if you're telling me you can't install OS3.9 on a partition bigger than 2GB that should be the problem :O?

[ByteRyder]

I finally got it running, the problem was the HD partitioning after all. I've made a 1 GB partition for workbench, installled it over 3.1 and voilá, Get boinged!

If I ever see an invalid resident library error again i'm gonna kill someone!

Thank you Jose, utri007, mfilos, zipper, Thomas and Daedalus for helping me out with this.