Help installing OS3.9 on A1200 with Squirrel SCSI CD-ROM

[StevenJGore]

Hi,

Last night I tried installing OS3.9 on my A1200 using a Squirrel SCSI CD-ROM drive.

I booted with CD-ROM support using a PowerC boot floppy created using the software supplied with the Squirrel, and then created an emergency disk using the OS3.9 CD.

When I try and boot from the Emergency disk, I get an error message about "cd.device" and "unit0", and then another message telling me to insert "AmigaOS3.9" (which is sat in the CD-ROM drive).

Any suggestions?

My A1200 is an AT A1200 with 3.1 ROM's, a Blizzard 68030 with 32MB RAM, and a 6GB IBM HD.

Thanks!
Steve.

[KennyR]

Copy your old CD0 mountfile over the one on the emergency disk, making sure you put squirrelscsi.device in DEVS:. That should do the trick.

[StevenJGore]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!
Is it a well-known problem with Squirrel SCSI CD-ROM drives, then?

[KennyR]

It's not really a problem with the Squirrel, but with OS3.9. The emergency disk is set up only to boot from an IDE device on atapi.device. If anyone has anything different at all, they have to change the dosdriver and move their .device file over to the disk. I had this problem with onboard Blizzard SCSI too.