Help! Fresh OS3.9 install malfunctioning...

[Karlos]

Hi all,

I have just installed OS3.9 onto a previously completely blank, bootable FFS partition using the "Full install over 3.0/3.1 or empty drive" option.

The installation does work in that it boots up to workbench 3.9.

However, the fun stops there. Nothing seems to work since resource.library V44 cannot be opened for some reason.

A quick "version resource.library" shows resource.library 44.102 from Sep 1999.

This is a completely fresh install (no boing bags yet) on a rather unremarkable system:

BlizzPPC 603e+ 240MHz / 68040 @25MHz

256Mb 60ns Fast RAM

BVision (no RTG is installed yet, using PAL display)

10G IDE drive on motherboard IDE (boot partition is
under the 4G barrier)

IDE CDRom, via PCMCIA adaptor

I still have a bootable 3.5 partition which works fine and happens to use the exact same version of the resource.library..

Anybody experience anything like this?

Cheers,

K

[Karlos]

Booting cold straight into it, I noticed that there wasnt the reset stage that 3.5 has. No rom update I wonder?

[Karlos]

Hi guys,

I have checked libraries and so on. The 3.9 startup sequence looks odd, but I can see that ultimately SetPatch QUIET is called. This is basically exactly how it looked under 3.5.

I put the BPPCFix before setpatch, just as it is in my 3.5 installation.

Failing all else, I will install a clean, working OS3.5 and then put 3.9 on top of that.

The bizzare thing about all of this is how it complains there is no resource.library v44, when clearly there is. Probably something it itself opens is missing I guess :-)

[Karlos]

@Framiga

Seems to be v44.17 in there...

How ironic. Everybody else seemed to find 3.5 a nightmare and 3.9 bliss. Am I the only one to have ther reverse experience? :-D

[Karlos]

@Framiga

Hey, thanks :-) I just installed 3.5 with the plan of installing 3.9 over it, but I might quickly reformat and try that :-D

Incidentally, there doesn't seem to be any mention of the OS3.9 boingbag 2 on os.amiga.com, only the first 3.9 boingbag is there. Where can I get the second one?

Basically, I need a completely clean, unpatched, unhacked OS3.9 installation updated to bb2 status...

[Karlos]

@GadgetMaster

Not yet mate :-(

Right - heres a weird thing. I have 3 bootable partitions, DH0:, DH1: and DH2:

DH0: is my usual, hacked to bits 3.5 install.
DH1: is a relatively clean 3.5 + bb2 install with just magic menu, king con, and some ppc datatypes.

DH2: is for a clean 3.9 install, which has been formatted like 10 times today already :lol:

Now, clean installing OS3.5 onto DH2: had the same problem as 3.9 - the resource.library error cropped up again!  Out of curiosity, I formatted it (again) and copied my DH1: over to it and it functioned fine.

I am left wondering if some changes (blizzard flash updates etc.) I made after installing 3.5 bb1 and bb2 has made my system incompatible with bare 3.5 / 3.9?

[Karlos]

Thats the basic problem. Without the resource.library virtually nothing works.

Including the installer, it seems :-(

I expect I can keep booting from DH1: (3.5) and tell it to install the bb updates over DH2: anyway, so I will try that later :-)

[Karlos]

Blimey. Absolutely nothing suggested in this thread so far has worked.

I cant even boot from a 3.5 to run the 3.9 boing bag installer over the 3.9 partition since the installer thinks I am attempting to install over 3.5 ;-)

Somehow, my configutation simply does not get on with OS3.9.

This is becoming a real nusiance. I never expected OS3.9 to be such an a*se.

Random things left to try

1) install under UAE and archive installation to a CD for extraction to DH2:

2) 'swapping' partitions to make the 3.9 install on 'DH0:' in case that makes a difference (no idea why it should)

3) Removing one of the 128M SIMMs in case for some odd reason that makes a difference (no idea why it should).

This is fast becoming a farce...