DENEB booting off of a thumbdrive.

[bash64]

Anyone else had success booting off of a thumbdrive?
I have with both os 3.1 and 3.9.
However, I cannot get it to happen consistantly.
Playing with various timings and delays just makes things worse and leads to strange crashing.

DENEB user.

 :-D

[bash64]

Crap.
Why then am I having so many issues?

A2000 (brand new condition) rev 6.2
A2630 w 4mb
dkb A2632 w 96mb
dkb megachip plus w 2mb
gvp hc+8 w 2mb and 4gb hard drive
gvp spectrum video card
deneb usb 2.0
usb burner with lightscribe
usb netgear ethernet
usb 5.1 audio
usb sata 160gb drive
usb wireless keyboard and mouse logitech

What are your specs?

Sincerely, Being driven nuts by boot issues with Deneb.
 :pissed:

[bash64]

Basically inconsistency.
What I found out the one time I got it to work was that the thumbdrive had to be the ONLY usb device plugged in.
Adding additional usb devices caused additional delays and the boot failed and I got the floppy screen.

My goal is to use it to replace my aging scsi system.
Do you know how hard it is to find a 4gb or smaller drive that is not ragged out? I bought a box of four of them on ebay. I'm down to two working ones. I need a NEW reliable set of drives to use.

I'm now wondering if my gvp hc+8 is the issue. Maybe the commodore 2630 accelerator doesn't like it. I just don't know.

Perhaps my el cheapo 1gb thumbdrive is a piece of !@$!@$ or just too slow to respond.
I plan on backing up my nice 8gb thumb and trying to use it.

Tell me what steps you went through to setup your deneb.
I used the quick poseidon option inside the luciferin menu to load up the modules and then flashed and cleared the tags.
Later I tried running the psdromtag utility also.

I'm terribly afraid that if I unplug everything again it will work which just won't do. My internal ide burner is hooked up to the internal usb port and I am NOT giving that up.

I do have os 3.9 on cd and os 3.1 floppies with AsimWare.

Sincerely, Roger.
 :-?

[bash64]

My hub is not self powered.
It is a Targus laptop hub.
I don't like to use it because Trident says it has a GenSys chip (?) and is not reliable. So I don't use it except for keyboard and mouse testing and then it works fine.
It can take power but did not come with a power supply.

I have my thumb plugged directly into the deneb external port.
That should be good. right?
I have removed as many cards as I can.
I could remove the video card and microway flicker fixer and hook it up to an analog monitor.

 :-(

[bash64]

Just bought one.

Spent all night and this morning reformatting.

Pulled out the deneb and I'm still having issues powering up.

I've only seen one part go bad in any computer over the years that can cause this much odd trouble...the hard drive controller.

I think my gvp hc+8 is flaky.

I am replacing with a a2091.

[bash64]

Issue it totally resolved.

I'd like to know where this is in the documentation but here is what was wrong...

1) I would make changes to my settings in trident.
2) Run luciferin and reflash everything inlcuding psdstackloader which had my new settings in it. Luciferin asked if I wanted to clear reset vectors and I said yes. I rebooted to massive problems.
3) I just ran PsdRomTag after Luciferin and it fixed whatever was wrong. I now have NO SCSI in my system. The deneb is my only hard drive controller. Period.

Thumb drives are cheap and I don't expect to have a problem getting a new drive for my Amiga for a long time.

I can now move on to other important issues.
I am going to work with the author of FryingPan to make it work with usb burners. It may already do so according to him. I laso need to work out what the deal is with my usb audio acting like {bleep}.

I hope this helps somebody not waste a month of their life like I just did.

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