WinUAE -> OS3.9 -> IDE Hard Drive -> Real Amiga 4000

[Thomas]

You've pretty much listed all the necessary steps. What kind of pointers do you need?

[Thomas]

The only step missing as far as I can tell is to run WinUAE with the disableharddrivesafetycheck option to enable you to use real hard drives (assuming that's still necessary - haven't used UAE for a long time).

This option does no longer exist. WinUAE now allows to write to all harddrives except those marked as "OS". In case your desired drive is marked as OS you can use the Windows DiskPart program to clean it.

[Thomas]

What's your WinUAE configuration? You should select A4000 from the quickstart menu and then connect the HDD to IDE0 rather than UAE to test if it does not happen in WinUAE, too. I think I've seen this happen before with SFS. Don't know if and how I fixed it (I am not so much interested in SFS and its problems).

[Thomas]

I had a similar problem when I installed OS 3.9 on my A4000 for the first time. After the soft reset the Amiga hang with a black screen. But it continued to boot when I pressed Ctrl-A-A.

The problem disappeared after I installed Boingbag1. Now you've got a second edition CD and AFAIK the second editon already contains Boingbag1, so I don't think installing it again will cure anything.

But you can rename the AmigaOS ROM Update file in the Devs directory, then the ROM update is disabled, the soft reset will not happen and the Amiga should not hang.