What's up with Hyperion's Website?

[Karlos]

Well, I just help fund their "project" with $138 US for OS4.1 and I need help with the install.  I would also like to see if there are any updates to it but I can't see them without being a member.

What model/spec do you have? I had a problem installing OS4.1 on my A1 XE  the other night that turned out to be something really stupid. I'd left UBoot configured to use the hard disk as the primary boot device.

This wasn't immediately obvious because when I booted up with the CD in the drive it appeared to start from there. However, it had loaded the old Kicklayout from the hard disk first (which I failed to notice) and that caused all kinds of problems.

Once I realised my mistake and made the CD the primary boot device in UBoot, installing 4.1 was completely painless.

Re: the site, I'm having a problem registering my copy too.

[Karlos]

I'm not sure off hand because i am not home.  I know it is an 800MHz I want to say a 7455 or 9455 PowerPC processor.  My memory fails me.  It appears that it boots off the CD because kickstart loads slow.  When it loads from the HD it loads very fast.  I went into uboot and selected Amigamulti boot and selected idecdrom and saved it.  OS4.0 worked perfectly.  Is uboot 1.1.1 OS 4.1 compatible?  I updated it when 4.0 was on there.  It says March 5, 2005 I think.

Sounds like the same basic spec as mine - 800MHz G4. I'm using UBoot 1.1.1 also, which to the best of my knowledge is the most up to date public version anyway. It certainly works with 4.1.

If the Kickstart is loading slowly that does suggest it has booted properly from the CD in any event, unlike my initial case.

A few questions:
What other hardware do you have in there?
How much memory and which graphics card?
How big did you make the swap partition?

I figure it is something stupid as well.  One thing I see odd in uboot.  If you hit enter when it is booting, you can select idedrive or cdrom which is a totally different menu than the amigamultiboot.  Maybe there is some trick to do there?

Not sure, but I didn't keep the old OS4 install on my machine as it wasn't OS4 final anyway.

[Karlos]

I'm thinking of replacing it with a Radeon 9000 256Mb and upgrading the ram to 512.  What is suggested for 4.1?  I don't see specs for it anywhere except the Radeon 9000.

Yeah, I fancy a 9200 if I can find a compatible model. I don't see that 512MB is going to hurt, either, though it could be overkill. Mind you I have 256MB in my A1200 so maybe not.

I currently only have 128MB in the A1 presently and OWB chomps through that pretty readily.

[Karlos]

Ebay has a lot of Radeon 9000s for $30-40 US and free shipping.  I think I'll get a 9000 256M on ebay and try that.  It seems they indirectly stress that because in their manual it shows the only screen settings for the Radeon 9k.  The only thing that doesn't make sense is why it boots from the CD to 4.1.  Grrrrr!

If it actually boots up and you get to workbench 4.1 then I can't really believe it's down to your video card being unsupported. There has to be some other problem at work here.

[Karlos]

I didn't create a swap until afterwards either, so I'm not sure that's the problem.

[Karlos]

Karlos, did you upgrade from 4.0 or do a new install with 4.1?  I'm going to install 4.0 again and try to upgrade it.  It is worth a try, eh?

Nope, I installed it completely fresh. Still, your mileage may vary.

[Karlos]

I'll check more closely, but the radeon 7000 seems to work fine in my machine, even if I do have to turn the compositing off due to the lack of horsepower the card has.