How to get AROS m68k to run?

[TheBilgeRat]

I was wondering how to get this running on an actual Amiga.  Anyone have a breakdown or a web link that explains it step by step?

All this hullabaloo surrounding legacy OS is starting to frustrate me

[TheBilgeRat]

TheBilgeRat:
download the current nightly. in the distfiles folder you will find an adf archive of a boot floppy. using f.i diskimage device (http://aminet.net/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos.zip)
you will be able to decompress it to a real floppy. also the best is to prepare aros boot partition on a hard disk (just coppy the content of nightly to it and mark the partition as bootable).

now, boot from the prepared floppy drive, which will extract the aros kickstart to ram and boot from there. you can recognize aros kickstart booting by dirty-ocker-yellow color on screen (lol). if you have a bootable aros harddisk partition attached to the system (preferably via internal ide or accelerator scsi) chances are that your system will boot to wanderer. be sure to have it a highest priority hd.
i have tested and can confirm a4k 030/040/060 as working, except for csppc. also many configs of a1200 work, in particular blizzard 1260. there is problem wit elbox fastata so far i see.

anyways further testers would be very welcome.

Awesome, thanks wawrzon!  I'll muck about with it soon.  I have a 40Gb IDE drive laying about and an A4000/40 with 16M ram.

[TheBilgeRat]

you welcome.
in my opinion best is to connect your hd to pc with running uae to copy the nightly files on it if your amiga has no internet access. also the secondary 3.x partition is useful for maintenance as decompressing the adf to floppy.

I don't run WinUae, but linux UAE.  Will that be an issue?

[TheBilgeRat]

Is adf2disk adequate for making the AROS boot floppy?

[TheBilgeRat]

I'm copying over the 5-22 nightly build now to the AROS partition, soon to be making the kickstart floppy.  It's kind of exciting!

[TheBilgeRat]

make sure to cold boot. after the floppy boots alright, and toldyou it has successfulle decompressed aros kick to ram remove floppy from the drive. short dirty yellow screen flash will tel you aros kick is resident. wait now, it boots long. if nothing works try to reboot without startup sequence. in case of further trouble serial debugging might be necessary.

OK, so procedure is...

1.  Cold Boot with Kickstart floppy in drive
2.  wait for it to say successful load into ROM.
3.  Dirty Yellow Screen.
4.  Remove kickstart disk.
5.  Wait a while

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I've done that, and the HD light stays on for a while, then we just have a blank screen.  I'll give it a try with no startup sequence.

[TheBilgeRat]

did the floppy loaded succesfully? if not choose it as boot device in early boot, holding both mouse buttons. same procedure to get into aros early boot to be able to boot without s-s.

Boot floppy says successful.  I had floppy as pri 5, AROS partition as pri 3 and normal partition as 0.  Floppy says successful boot, screen flashes ochre, I remove disk, then black screen with disk activity, then black screen without disk activity.  BAsic A4000 with full ram.