DENEB USB & CYBERVISION 643D

[Darrin]

MozzerFan wrote:
Darrin, forgot to mention, that if you keep the poseidon files in your flashrom, you can remove psdstackloader from user-startup.

Regards,
Lloyd

Ah, so my FlashROM is setting the preferences which is why I can't save the changes from the Workbench preferences!  Doh!!!  OK, thanks for that tip.  I'll clear the FlashROM completely for now and see if that does the trick.  

I just wiped my boot partition to start again, but I backed up the old one before I started.

Cheers.

[MozzerFan]

It's also important to know that the save option is greyed out as long as poseidon doesn't notice any changes in your settings. So if you removed poseidon from the flashrom,
and the save-option is still greyed out, make some unimportant changes in your settings, and see if the save option becomes available.
BTW 1 important advantage of keeping poseidon in the flashrom is that you can boot from usb masstorage devices.
If you keep it in the flashrom, you don't need psdstackloader in startup-sequence/user-startup anymore,
but when you change your settings in trident and saved them, you must reflash the flashrom with the new settings file (ENVARC:psdstackloader).
EDIT: This also goes for other poseidon files, for example when you install a new version of poseidon, you must reflash the ROM after installation.

Regards,
Lloyd

[Darrin]

So if I want to make a bootable USB memory stick then I should enable it in workbench, "USE" the settings, then reflash the Deneb with the RAM:ENVARC/psdstackloader.  Then it should allow me to boot from it?

[MozzerFan]

First you SAVE your trident settings. Then you put all related poseidon files in the flashrom with luciferin.
There is a menu option in luciferin to automatically add
all poseidon files. Then you remove psdstackloader from user-startup. Don't forget to partition and format the usb-stick with an amiga compatible file-system (FFS/SFS/PFS).
It's not possible to boot from fat or ntfs partitions.

Edit: Just found out, it is also possible to boot from fat partitions. Use boot95 from the fat95 archive.

Regards,
Lloyd

[Darrin]

MozzerFan wrote:
First you SAVE your trident settings. Then you put all related poseidon files in the flashrom with luciferin.
There is a menu option in luciferin to automatically add
all poseidon files. Then you remove psdstackloader from user-startup. Don't forget to partition and format the usb-stick with an amiga compatible file-system (FFS/SFS/PFS).
It's not possible to boot from fat or ntfs partitions.

Regards,
Lloyd

Thanks.  Once I have everything running properly then I'll have a go at making a 2GB SFS installation on a spare memory stick which I could then use as an emergency backup.

Cheers

[keropi]

thanks for the tip on the updates Darrin, they are kind of "hidden" in the E3B site...  :-D

[Flashlab]

I tried the update; sadly the timing issues with GRex4000D are not fixed by it. So still no DMA; it's not too bad though I still have USB!

[Darrin]

I was ready to hurl my A4000 through the window last night.  I keep having problems with my monitor and scan doubler deciding not to display certain screen modes (which I can work around), but I can't get my FastATA to work with OS3.9!

I make a clean installation and everything is fine. The FastATA docs says that it doesn't need to "skip the ROM updates", but as soon as the FastATA software is installed I get 1 guru during bootup and finally it hangs up with an error loading IPrefs where I can only "reboot" or "suspend" (which leaves me with an empty workbench screen).

Grrrr!!!  I had to walk away last night before I took a large screwdriver to the mobo.

I guess the last resort is to go back to OS3.1 and try something like Amikit to bring the OS up to date.