Author Topic: Bootable AF2008 CD (Read 2660 times)

Dazxy2001 · « **on:** July 28, 2008, 10:41:40 PM »

Hi,having been forced to switch from hardware to an emulated Amiga, I have a query regarding the AF2008 CD. I understand that you can use this to boot into an Amiga enviroment. Im finding it hangs in exactly the same place as Amithlon etc and assume this is the same linux distro being used minus any updates for later motherboard chipsets ?
I was able to run Amithlon fine on a PIII 800 I have but it wont look at my current hardware, and the same goes for a bootable AF2008.
Trying to run the bootable version on an ECS :/ mobo Intel P965/ ICH8 chipset, Q6600, 4GB Ram, ATI 4850 grfx
To get this running will I be required to start digging into the kernel of the distro itself, and if so are there tutorials anywhere ? Thanx

zipper · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2008, 05:44:43 AM »

Sorry, can't say anything about your prob. I just loaded the Iso into DaemonTools emulated drive and it booted into Amiga Forever without any problems.

Retro_71 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2008, 05:54:48 AM »

Sometimes just soemtimes its the CD/DVD drive (i know becuase sometimes WIN XP hangs on installation and when i change the drive it all ok).
Is ur Drive a IDE or Sata?
Have you tried it with another Drive?

Dazxy2001 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:51:24 AM »

DVD player and DVD-RW are both on the IDE channel. I have an AMD 2400xp based system to try it on with a VIA chipset, failing that I`ll drag the PIII 800 out and try it on there. The reason for asking the question was I remembered the original Amithlon would only operate with certain chipsets as that was all that was catered for before the project was stopped. And I`m thinking that the bootable AF2008 is the same project and if it is. Has it had any further development to improve it since Amithlon ceased to make it worthwhile trying to figure out what the problems I have are. I remember the sound used to be an issue on certain systems, causing system lockups and slowdowns, is this still the case ?

TrevorDick · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2008, 02:19:33 PM »

Dazxy2001

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The reason for asking the question was I remembered the original Amithlon would only operate with certain chipsets as that was all that was catered for before the project was stopped. And I`m thinking that the bootable AF2008 is the same project and if it is. Has it had any further development to improve it since Amithlon ceased to make it worthwhile trying to figure out what the problems I have are.

I think you'll find that the bootable AF2008 disk has nothing to do with the Amithlon project.

TrevorDick

Dazxy2001 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2008, 04:44:13 PM »

Fair nuff, struck me as being the same due to the same version of linux being used, figure thats where the problem is lying.

a3000 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2008, 06:46:56 PM »

I have just installed it under XP & 2008 works fine. You can add your Amiga drives via a USB external adapter.

Dazxy2001 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2008, 08:25:00 AM »

Seems Im getting somewhere now, running it in failsafe I`m getting loads of errors, mainly regards the hard drive and alot of devices not recognised and then Im dropped to a shell prompt in Gentoo :/