Fresh 3.9 install on an 20GB harddrive

[Thomas]

I chose "IDEfix" over SCSI when asked.

You should select IDEfix only if you have IDEfix software installed and want continue to use it. In all other cases choose SCSI. The IDEFix choice just does *not* install the >4GB support of OS 3.9.

Also you should try out the emergency disk and correct any errors *before* you change the hardware config. What use is an emergency disk that does not work?

[Thomas]

Sorry to hijack but are you sure about that, I was just about to install the IdeFix express software on my 16GB setup and I don't want to kill it

Yes, I am. If you select IDEfix, it does not copy the AmigaOS ROM Update to the disk, but tries to copy all components of IDEfix instead.

Actually it looks like the Express install discs were patched with TD64.

IDEfix does not need to be patched, it supports TD64 by design.

[Thomas]

one set up specifically for Shapeshifter

Be aware that if you use a partition as virtual harddrive for Shapeshifter, this partition *must* be completely inside the first 4GB of the real harddrive! Shapeshifter is not aware of the 4GB problem and cannot access outside the first 4GB of a real harddrive.

If you use hardfiles, you are safe, though. Although hardfiles cannot be bigger than 2GB (AmigaDOS limitation).

[Thomas]

I would like to correct that problem, but have no idea why it would not find the CDROM.

At first you should connect your old HDD back to the Amiga and boot from it. Then put the OS 3.9 CD into the CD drive. Open a shell window and enter INFO. Check what the drive is called the CD is in (usually CD0: ). Now look into Devs: DosDrivers if there is a file of that name. Load it into a text editor and paste its contents into this thread.

Now insert the emergency disk, open Devs/DosDrivers on the disk and load the file EMERGENCY_CD into a text editor. Paste the contents here, too.

Basically we need to check if Device= and Unit= have the correct values for your hardware configuration and that the files named in Device= and FileSystem= exist on the emergency disk.

[Thomas]

Output of EmergencyCD on the Floppy Drive:

/***************************************************************/
/*  CacheCDFS mountlist entry © 2000 Amiga Inc.          */
/***************************************************************/
       FileSystem     = L:CacheCDFS /* The name of the game */
       Device         = "asim_atapi.device" /* Name of exec device driver */
       Unit           = 1 /* exec device unit */
       Flags          = 0 /* OpenDevice flags */

Please change asim_atapi.device into scsi.device and try to boot from the disk again.