How to get AROS m68k to run?

[wawrzon]

TheBilgeRat:
download the current nightly. in the distfiles folder you will find an adf archive of a boot floppy. using f.i diskimage device (http://aminet.net/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos.zip)
you will be able to decompress it to a real floppy. also the best is to prepare aros boot partition on a hard disk (just coppy the content of nightly to it and mark the partition as bootable).

now, boot from the prepared floppy drive, which will extract the aros kickstart to ram and boot from there. you can recognize aros kickstart booting by dirty-ocker-yellow color on screen (lol). if you have a bootable aros harddisk partition attached to the system (preferably via internal ide or accelerator scsi) chances are that your system will boot to wanderer. be sure to have it a highest priority hd.
i have tested and can confirm a4k 030/040/060 as working, except for csppc. also many configs of a1200 work, in particular blizzard 1260. there is problem wit elbox fastata so far i see.

anyways further testers would be very welcome.

[wawrzon]

i suspect aros might currently boot up on a1200 with 4mb fast ram. i will try to test it tomorrow since i have an exemplar in my studio. it should through definitely boot from ide on a1200/a4000 equipped with =>030 and 16mb ram. note that aros is still generally very slow, especially on aga.

[wawrzon]

you welcome.
in my opinion best is to connect your hd to pc with running uae to copy the nightly files on it if your amiga has no internet access. also the secondary 3.x partition is useful for maintenance as decompressing the adf to floppy.

[wawrzon]

most likely. first of all the kicksart file exceeds 512kb and is provided in form of two winuae specific files. you might try to boot it like a real hardware, that means first with regular 3.1 kick file from provided adf floppy, and then when aros kick has been succesfully loaded from the aros partition.

[wawrzon]

amiga rtg support is not even implemented yet on aros except uae. in fact aros as system runs yet much, much too slow (on real hardware) in most respects, and i dont think it is a question of unoptimized compiler backend, in which case i would expect a factor 2 -3 speedup best case,

[wawrzon]

yes, of course.

[wawrzon]

make sure to cold boot. after the floppy boots alright, and toldyou it has successfulle decompressed aros kick to ram remove floppy from the drive. short dirty yellow screen flash will tel you aros kick is resident. wait now, it boots long. if nothing works try to reboot without startup sequence. in case of further trouble serial debugging might be necessary.

[wawrzon]

did the floppy loaded succesfully? if not choose it as boot device in early boot, holding both mouse buttons. same procedure to get into aros early boot to be able to boot without s-s.