Minimig Setup Help

[bbond007]

Hi all!

So I finally got around to ordering a Minimig which arrived today (thanks Amigakit!) and it's looking great in it's new case (thanks Lorinano!), however I'm having trouble getting it working.

I downloaded minimig 1.pic from Vesalia and copied it to an SD card along with a kickstart rom and Workbench ADF from Amiga Forever, however on boot up I get a red screen with a message stating incompatible pic firmware.

Could someone help out a noob and let him know what he's doing wrong?

Many thanks,

Phil

you'll need to put newer firmware in your PIC. I think you use this program to do it :

http://www.etc.ugal.ro/cchiculita/software/picbootloader.htm

hopefully somebody knows if this is still the preferred method.

I have an ARM now, so i'm a little outdated on PIC info.

[bbond007]

Also note that if the ROMs from AmigaForever are encrypted then they might not work with the core.  Best to download a KS1.3 or KS3.1 ROM off the internet or ask some nice chap here to email one to you.  

I THINK I read that encrypted ROMS now work... The whole encryption is XOR based anyway... talk about high-tech

[bbond007]

I'll hold back on that!  Thanks, I figured it was more than likely a fault at my end.

Chances are Vesalia has the wrong BIN.

I would use this BIN

http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=397

If it does not work with that then I would upgrade the firmware regardless of what Anybody said.

If my minimig was still running the original PIC software it came with (which its not, also I have an ARM now) then it would stuck with 8 character filenames, fat16 and 2GB SD card, not to mention being incompatible with all the latest cores.

[bbond007]

@Darrin, What to do if your computer doesn't run Microsoft windows regarding the "Tiny Bootloader" program?.

you could try and run that program under wine.

[bbond007]

Just trying to use the hard files that come with Amiga Forever, not sure how they're setup.  I'll try a new one as per above, thanks.

I have only been able to make working hardfiles by using dummy file creator to make the hardfile, then use hdtoolbox to partitionn the "drive" on the actual minimig. None of the HDFs that came with Amiga Forever worked for me.

You can mount both under UAE and just "copy dh0: dh1: all" to convert.