Getting PegII to boot from CD

[itix]

The best you can try is connecting serial terminal to Pegasos and look into debug output... The worst I can imagine is that Pegasos is defunct... :/

Or humm... how is your harddrive?

[itix]

You must use right settings, 11500 8n1 (IIRC), other than that it doesnt need special care.

[itix]

clean your eeprom too

Geez.

[itix]

When it tries to boot it says 'ISO-9660 filesystem: System-ID "MorphOS"'. Is that 1.4.5???

It just is MorphOS 'some version'.

I have 1 stick of 512MB PC2100 DDR. I have tried it in both slots.

Even if memory was broken it should randomly get past Quark prompt (boot image could be compared to Kickstart ROM on Amiga). Maybe if boot image was not loaded correctly and it crashes (which would indicate broken CD) but I find it extremely unlikely.

I have tried the Voodoo on the first PCI slot with nothing on any other slots.

Probably not related to gfx card. Gfx card drivers are loaded later.

There probably is something on the drive. I was planning to format it once I had booted MOS. Does it matter if there's something on there?

Not really. Well, in some cases it does but you should get past Quark prompt then.. (at least a little).

[itix]

Well I got up early this morning and tried an NEC CDRW/DVD combo drive, and it works! I'm now in the process of installing MOS Thanks for all your help everyone.

Phew. At least it was not fault on mobo :-) Did you use 80wire cables?