Pegasos on the way - yay!

[Wilse]

OK, it was the CDROM. I've replaced it and now have:

ok boot /pci/cd boot.img

followed by a series of columns and rows that look a bit like a tracker display. There are 8 rows and 16 columns, 0 to F. Under this is:
Root dir: " " flags-0x2 extent=0x17 size=0x1000

Any ideas what now?  :-)

Cheers,

[Madgun68]

Any ideas what now?

You might try the serial output again. You're real close.

[downix]

Ooooo, I know this one!

It's still the CD-ROM that's at fault, but possibly because of
location.

Move it to the other IDE channel.  Switch from master to slave or
vice-versa, try the combos.  one of my CD-ROM's would only work
properly if it was IDE1/slave and another only when as IDE1/master or
IDE0/slave.

Why?  beats the hell out of me.  

[Wilse]

@downix:

Ooooo, I know this one!

You see, that's the great thing about this site:
One minute we're all arguing about religion or whatever; the next, you lot are all helping do'nut here set up his machine.  :-D

It's still the CD-ROM that's at fault, but possibly because of location

Well, I'm back at work again, but I'll be sure to move it around when I get back home (in about eight hours  :-( ).

[Wilse]

@Madgun68:

You might try the serial output again. You're real close.

I never did figure out how to set up Hyperterm. Any tips? (It only seems to have options for dialing a remote computer via the 'phoneline.)

[Wilse]

I know it's bad form to reply to your own messages but:

OK, it was the CDROM. I've replaced it and now have:

ok boot /pci/cd boot.img

followed by a series of columns and rows that look a bit like a tracker display. There are 8 rows and 16 columns, 0 to F. Under this is:
Root dir: " " flags-0x2 extent=0x17 size=0x1000

I forgot to mention that, if I reset and try again, it does the same thing but also adds:

zlib: unknown error -2
error: abort
ok_

at the end.

[sdesros]

Is there a spinning character shown after that "dump"/"tracker-like" display?  

[Wilse]

sdesros wrote:
Is there a spinning character shown after that "dump"/"tracker-like" display?  

Yes. After about 10secs, it stops spinning then nothing else happens.
If I then reset and try again, it stops spinning after about 3secs and then says:

zlib: unknown error -2
error: abort
ok_


 :-?

[KennyR]

I'm not an expert on the MorphOS low level, but it sounds to me like the boot image is failing to unpack. Contact Genesi immediately.

[Wilse]

KennyR wrote:
I'm not an expert on the MorphOS low level, but it sounds to me like the boot image is failing to unpack. Contact Genesi immediately.

Not the IDE channel then?
Oh dear.
Well, I've e-mailed Nicolas Sallin and passed on your comment.

Thanks,

[sdesros]

Hmm... I had similar symptons (although no "zlib" issues.)  It was traced to a faulty CDRom drive.  (The unit was actually faulty.  IE: it wouldn't read the disk after it spun down, I had to eject to cause the drive to spin up again.)

Although it doesn't seem to be a problem with yours though.  Especially with that error popping up?

[takemehomegrandma]

@ KennyR

Miami itself is a pain in the arse to install, since its installer is dumb and makes wild assumptions that fail on MOS. Easier just to copy from a CDRW and make the add the assign manually to user-startup.

I only encountered one problem with the Miami installer. It stalled, and the error message said that I needed MUI v3.8 or later. I knew that I had that (;-)) so I simply deleted that part (checking for MUI) of the installer script.

After that it worked flawlessly. :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Wilse

As Downix said, try moving the CD-ROM; try different configurations of Master/Slave, try to set it manually by jumpers and not rely on "cable selection", try to have both the harddrive and CD-Rom on the same channel, try the opposite, try different channels, etc. Ultimately, try another CD-ROM. If it still doesn't work, I would go back to the store and ask for another kind of memory.

I hope you get your Pegasos working soon! Let us know when you are surfing from Voyager or Ibrowse! :-)

[redrumloa]

@Wilse

I've missed this thread or I would have helped you out as much as possibel:-/ You probably would have been better to ask on the list you were susbcribed to, that is the support list. However email me if you need individual help, I'll try my best:-)

[Wilse]

@tmhg:

try moving the CD-ROM; try different configurations of Master/Slave, try to set it manually by jumpers and not rely on "cable selection", try to have both the harddrive and CD-Rom on the same channel, try the opposite, try different channels, etc. Ultimately, try another CD-ROM.

Well, I tried switching channels, same channel and I've had every jumper combination I can (HD master CD slave; HD master CD master; HD master CD cable select, etc..)
I even tried yet another CDROM (that's three now.)
Still no joy.

If it still doesn't work, I would go back to the store and ask for another kind of memory.

If I get this "Hyper Terminal" debug prog. working, would it be able to tell me if it was a memory problem?

I hope you get your Pegasos working soon!

Me too.  :-D

Let us know when you are surfing from Voyager or Ibrowse!

I'm on iBrowse on my A1200 atm but am just about to switch to the PC. Don't worry, you'll know when I'm surfing via the peggy!  ;-)

[Wilse]

@red:

You probably would have been better to ask on the list you were susbcribed to, that is the support list.

I know but I can't send mails from that address during the day (at work) and have found the guys on here very helpful. I should really subscribe to the list with an address I can use from work but I haven't got round to it yet.