OS 3.9 romupdate causes autoconfig data to dissapear, how to resolve that?

[Doobrey]

AmiGR wrote:
The problem is not caused by any module, it's caused by the reboot itself.

The "earlyupdate" & "veryearly update"  messes about with expansion.libraries config list , and also fiddles with the list of available card slots.

[Doobrey]

keropi wrote:
unknown
unknown.1
unknown.2
unknown.3

Could you do a version on these files and let us know what they are?
 Not all the files from the RomUpdate are necessary on an A1200, so maybe one/some of the unknowns is meant for different hardware and causing the problems.

[doctorq]

@Keropi

Do you use Boing Bags? I use BlizKick on my Amiga 1200 as well, but I don't get unknown files when I extract the ROM Update, so maybe there is an error in the ROM Update itself.

[Framiga]

same "unknown" here but with the right comment:

console.device     : console 44.8 (12.6.2001)
ram-handler        : ram 44.23 (8.4.2001)
scsi.device        : IDE_scsidisk 43.43 (16.1.2002)
FileSystem.resource : filesysres 45.10 (3.8.2001)
FastFileSystem     : fs 45.13 (3.8.2001)
romupdate.idtag    : ROMUpdate 44.57 (25.2.2002)
unknown            : exec 45.20 (6.1.2002) size 17280
unknown.1          : exec 45.20 (6.1.2002) size 17308
unknown.2          : syscheck
unknown.3          : shell 45.7 (13.01.2002)

extracted from:

AmigaOS ROM Update    321768 ----rwed 25-Feb-02 (BB2)

useing the A4000I option

romupdatesplit FROM="Devs:AmigaOS ROM Update" A4000I RAM:

Is there something wrong? (i've never installed BlizKick)

btw .  .why 2 exec.library with different size?

EDIT- found the problem:

download this:

http://piru.dyndns.org/~p/sw/BlizKick.lha

it fixes the unknown problem with BB2

[keropi]

Yes, I have installed both BB for OS3.9... I will use the new Blizkick (thanx Framiga!) but one last thing:
Am I using it OK ? I mean, is the command I put on the SS correct? I only need it to inject the patches, not kickstart+patches... should I use a KS also?

[keropi]

There is a newest release on BlizKick homepage, which has full support for os3.5 and 3.9  :-D  Also there was a bug that prevents modules after console.device to load (like in my case) I'll try that later at home, I am sure I'll get it running now  :-D  
Here is the BlizKick homepage:
BlizKick homepage

[Framiga]

the one you have downloaded, its already the latest (the same of 1.24rc5)

[keropi]

a friend suggested I should try running "prepareemul a1200" (from shapeshifter package) after setpatch on my SS, because it does another reboot, so there will be no need to manually do a reboot. I have read that all prepareemul does is that it leaves the first 8kb of chipram free, so shapeshifter can use them...
What do you think of that idea?

[keropi]

I just tried what the BLIZKICK 1.24rc5 says in the help file... I extracted the romupdate (DEVS:MODULES) and put this line on the SS after ata3.driver:
c:blizkick extresbuf=80000 MODULE FileSystem.resource FastFileSystem ram-handler console.device

BUT

on boot I get:
Couldn't kick file "DEVS:MODULES/FileSystem.resource" !
c:BlizKick failed returncode 10

why? :-?  :-?  :-?

[doctorq]

Try setting a higher value in the EXTRESBUF field.

Futhermore, I think you should try to install BoingBag2 again, as there could be an error in the ROM Update itself. I believe there are some of the files in the ROM Update that is needed and you obviously are missing those.

[keropi]

OK, I'll re-install BB2...

[keropi]

damn, re-installed bb2, extracted agin the modules, but only the first one can load... I get an error 10 and a message saying that it cannot find the module... in whatever order I put the modules, only the fisrt one works... wtf?  :pissed: I even tried using full paths in modules, and changed the default module path using the info on the guide... but still only the 1st one loads!   :pissed: