MorphOS PowerUp help

[Amigaz]

Just tried to get MOS PowerUp to boot on my A4000 which I just installed a CybervisionPPC card in but I can only hear/see my A4000 reboot once and then after 3-5 secs nothing happens..just a black screen.
I've copied everything from the MOS cd to a partition called SDH3 and set boot priority to -1 since my OS3.9 installation on my SHD0 partition is set to 0
When I boot I go into the early startup menu and disable my OS3.9 partition (SDH0= and choose to boot from SDH3 instead.
I've then tweaked the MOS startup like this:

;
; This is the MorphOS loader startup-sequence. If you set the MorphOS partition as bootable,
; this file would cause MorphOS to get loaded on boot automaticly.
;
; By default MorphOS boots without using the ROM contents of your Amiga. If you wish to
; make it use the kickstart contents (to be able to use trackdisk.device for example)
; please follow those steps:
;
; 1) Check if you have a correct kickstart file:
; The Kickstart version required are:
; Amiga4000/4000T/3000 - 40.68 or 40.70
; Amiga1200 - 40.68
; Is is advised that you use the unpatched ROM files
;
; 2) Move or delete fakerom.elf from boot/extmoudles
;
; 3) Change the kickstart variable, remember to tune the file path

set kickstart "kickstart=Devs:ROM3.1"
;set kickstart "nokickstart"

; Bootdevice can be used to specify the MorphOS partition if you have more than one
; bootable partition and the MorphOS one doesn't have the highest boot priority. Remember
; to use partition names, not volume names! This option requires the 'bootdevice' keyword
; like in the example below:
set bootdevice "bootdevice=SDH3"
; Leave the var blank if you want to boot from the default boot partition!

set bootdevice ""

; The resetlevel and delay variables are there for you to tweak if MorphOS startup doesn't
; reboot the machine properly after loading MorphOS files.
;
; The possible resetlevel values are:
; 0 exec/coldreboot (System Reboot)
; 1 MMU switch off + normal reset in chipram (default)
; 2 MMU switch off + double reset in chipram
; 3 MMU switch off + Cyberstorm HW Reset in chipram
; 4 for (;;..waiting for manual reset by your hands:-)
; 5 MMU switch off + normal reset in fastram
; 6 MMU switch off + double reset in fastram
; 7 MMU switch off + Cyberstorm HW Reset in fastram
;
; NOTE: most common setting for BlizzardPPC is resetlevel 1 and 5 for CyberStormPPC!

set resetlevel 5
set delay 1

; Load the MorphOS loader!

cd sys:boot
startup hal=roms/hal.com1 kernel=roms/kernel.com1 abox=roms/abox2.com1 module=roms/module.com1 resetlevel=$resetlevel ramdebug verbose debug EDebugFlags="NoLogServer NoLogWindow" sumkick disableled delay=$delay extmodules=extmodules/#? $bootdevice $kickstart >NIL:

I have grabbed my kickrom with saverom from the BlizKick package and put it in DEVS on my MOS partition.
I'm using PFS3 as filesystem
Would be highly grateful for help that can help me get this going so I can stop dreaming of a PPC based OS for my A4000 that might never show up

[humppa]

set bootdevice ""

Why didn't you comment out the above?
It overwrites your previous line:

set bootdevice "bootdevice=SDH3"

You could also try to change "module.com1" to "module.com1.idehack".

With my BPPC+, booting from SCSI with the usual "module.com1" had the effect that the boot-up process stopped after the first reboot. I always had to wait some seconds and press "Return", then MOS was loaded.
After changing to "module.com1.idehack", I didn't have this problem anymore and it booted straight into Morphos.

[Framiga]

if you are using the latest MOS ISO, you have to use the file in SYS:Boot/roms/module.com1.idehack.

-Rename it as "module.com1" (thats one is borked)

-Remove the line:

set bootdevice ""

-Disable also the MapRom option from the CSPPC Early menu.

[a1200freak]

Hi,

I have the same config like you, A4000 + CSPPC + CVPPC.

The entry bootdevice is twice in your startup-sequence:

set bootdevice "bootdevice=SDH3"

and some lines further:

set bootdevice=""

You have to comment the second entry as it overwrites the first.

Another difference to my startup-sequence is the entry with the kickstart:

set kickstart "nokickstart"

I have not read the ROM to a file and it works for me with the entry above.

The third difference is the filesystem. You use PFS3. I use SmartFileSystem from Aminet for my MOS system partition. I´m not sure if MOS supports PFS3.


Hope this helps.

[Framiga]

PFS3 is the best filesystem for MOS.

Even people with pegs use it ;-)

[Amigaz]

Doh! looks like I was sleeping when I set the bootdevice  :lol:

Didn't know about the idehack module thingie, will change it too

Wish me luck and thanks for the tips, I'll terrorize you guys with more questions if it doesn't work  :-D   :-P

[Amigaz]

Hey, it works!!

Thanks for the helpful hints

Damn..now I just need a Zorro network card so I can reg MOS PowerUp

[humppa]

Doh! looks like I was sleeping when I set the bootdevice

No problem, it also took me some time before I finally got my startup working. But the moment when the butterfly-logo finally comes up is priceless.  :lol:

Wish me luck and thanks for the tips, I'll terrorize you guys with more questions if it doesn't work

Sure. Btw, what's the rest of your configuration like? How are you planning to get LAN/Internet-access?

In case you have a Mediator, you might be interested in this thread. Not a single reply yet! :boohoo: (shameless plug)  ;-)  

[humppa]

Damn..now I just need a Zorro network card so I can reg MOS PowerUp

Or a Mediator with a RTL8029... See my link above. Btw, the Morphos Powerup registration server is down since a few weeks. So you can't register anyway.  :-(

[Amigaz]

humppa wrote:

Damn..now I just need a Zorro network card so I can reg MOS PowerUp

Or a Mediator with a RTL8029... See my link above. Btw, the Morphos Powerup registration server is down since a few weeks. So you can't register anyway.  :-(

Think I'll get myself an X-surf for this occasion

So the server's down?  :-o  hope it's not for good  :-(

Damn...now when I have a lightning fast Amiga-like OS
I was suprised to see how fast it is..even on my CVPPC and in higher resolutions
Even images are shown fast, I use to think images were shown fast with WarpOS picture datatypes
Can't wait to try some PPC based browsers and such

[humppa]

So the server's down?  hope it's not for good

The registration has been down a few times before, so it's nothing "unusual". I am not sure if the guy in charge (I think it was "bigfoot") is even available at the moment. Maybe it helps if you ask on Morphzone about that.

Even images are shown fast, I use to think images were shown fast with WarpOS picture datatypes

Yep, it's quite a difference, isn't it? Image display is much faster and browsing is much more fun. Unfortunately, AWeb is not the fastest browser, even in the MOS PPC-version.
Luckily, 68k emulation of Morphos with Trance is so fast, that you can use the 68060-version of Ibrowse without any problems. Set image-decoding to "external" and it will be even faster.

But in 4 days we'll hopefully get Sputnik, which will be a whole new experience I guess. The GUI will be very basic in the beginning, but finally we'll be able to browse CSS websites.

[Amigaz]

Framiga wrote:
PFS3 is the best filesystem for MOS.

Even people with pegs use it ;-)

PFS3 rocks!  ;-)

But aren't there PPC native filesystems for MOS?

[Crumb]

But aren't there PPC native filesystems for MOS?

SFS, FFS...

[Piru]

...ext2filesystem, ntfilesystem, sgixfilesystem...