efika and morphOS

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I had problems like that when putting a new HDD in my Efika.

Do you own a real Amiga with IDE capability? If so, partition & format the drive with it first (instead of doing it with MorphOS install .img) & you will have no further problems.

If you don't own a suitable Amiga, use WinUAE to partition & format the drive.

I have no idea why you are experiencing the problem (like I was too), but the above method works great! :-D

PZ.

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Take out the existing HDD from your A1200 when you do it & just use the Install3.1 floppy to do the job...that way you don't risk anything.

Hang on, I'm confused...your signature lists heaps of cool hardware, but you are scared to format a HDD? :-?

PZ.

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From MorphOS website FAQ:

"Q: How do I setup or modify the auto-boot feature? (Open Firmware)
A: First make sure its working when typing the commands by performing a test boot.

Then, define a boot file and set options. Boot command and boot device will be added by using the Open Firmware.
> setenv boot-file boot.img ramdebug

There are alias names available if you did not remove them, so this /pci/ stuff can be replaced by a simple ide:0.
> setenv boot-device /pci/ide/disk@...

Now, we set the auto boot delay. By default the Open Firmware counts down from 5 before starting auto boot. This would be a 5 second delay. It is possible to set up lower or higher numbers. It is recommended to refrain from using values below 1000, because it may be very hard to re-enter the Open Firmware command line interface again otherwise. The optimal values are between 3000 and 10000. (4000 equals 4 seconds, 1000 equals 1 second, and so on.)
> setenv auto-boot-timeout 3000

You may skip this for now. Using "boot" command without any argument will use the configuration specified above. If its working fine you finally can enable automatic booting using those set-ups.
> setenv auto-boot? true
"

It works for me :-)

PZ.

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A 5 second (5000) timeout will prove to be a lot longer wait than you think. I suggest 2 seconds (2000), as you still have enough time to kill auto-boot if you want, but don't have to wait ages for it to start up.

PZ.

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pyrre wrote:
I felt 3 secs was to short...
maybe change that later.

I have some questions:
1: is all the amount of ram supposed to show up on sam disk?
Mine is only showing 69(now) and it is changing between 50, 60 and 71 mb...

2: when i do something, like resizing windows. The efika makes a strange noise. difficult to explain... But everything i do makes that noise...

3: in openfirmware is there a way of rebooting the computer?

4: The clock battery is dead, at least it is not holding the clock settings when powered of and on again.
Does that affect anything else than the clock?

1: It fluctuates as you do things that require the use of memory...you are seeing free memory, not total memory.

2: No idea, probably what Britelite said.

3: In Open Firmware, or in Ambient? In Open Firmware, maybe just try hitting your reset button. In Ambient, right-click on an empty part of the screen & there'll be drop-down menus at the top...choose the one left-most, as restart & shutdown are there.

4: No idea, but it's just a button cell, which I'd be changing if I were you.

PZ.