Help! Just bought a Sam440ep-flex, what now?

[spirantho]

Is your CD on J23 then (which is correct)? Anything else and it won't boot as that's where it expects the optical drive.

If UBoot doesn't boot on J23 then check the sii3114 environment variables from the uboot command prompt and make sure all ports are enabled. Also of course check your boot order is set correctly....

[spirantho]

Can you do a "printenv" from the UBoot command line please and show us what it says?

Edit: Another thought - have you tried connecting one CD-ROM to J200 and one to J203? Then booting from the one in J200, removing the disk, putting it in J203 and then Ctrl+Amiga+Amiga (i.e. soft reset, not hard reset)?

[spirantho]

Yay! Now enjoy

[spirantho]

I don't have a Flex, but I know update 6 runs beautifully on my 440ep!

[spirantho]

Get the Catweasel if you can - they're very hard to find! And naturally make sure you're using drivers from my website (http://www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/) or later (they're still improving whenever I get chance...)