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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #59 from previous page: October 25, 2008, 02:11:50 PM »
Yeah that's probably going to be the easiest option. I've asked Amigakit to make me a 44 female -> 40 male cable which will allow me to plug any IDE cable in to the A1200. Should make things much easier!

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #60 on: October 31, 2008, 09:38:00 AM »
Right! I've got my 44 female -> 40 male IDE cable now (thanks Amigakit!) so I have connected a standard 40 way IDE cable to the A1200 directly to the motherboard and I can still use two devices. So I have now got a HDD and a CD-ROM connected to the Amiga without the need for the buffered interface. And guess what? It works! OS4 is now installing :-D

Still having problems with the BVision. It seems to be working as it doesn't use AGA when the BVision is connected, but I can't get a display up on the VGA monitor. It did work for a while, so maybe it just wasn't connected properly. It's disconnected now while OS4 is installing, and I'll try re-connecting it afterwards and try it again.

Thanks for all the help guys!
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #61 on: October 31, 2008, 11:44:00 AM »
I gave the BVision connectors a clean (just blew in to them) and also noticed some thermal paste on the BVision board itself. Is this stuff electrically conductive? I wiped it off anyway, and made sure the BVision was firmly pushed on to the connector and screwed in, and when I booted from the OS4 CD, hey presto it worked! I'm now installing OS4 :-D

How do I find out what speed the PPC is? When I type "cpu" in to a shell in OS4 it just says it's a 603e. Is there a way to get more specific info?

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #62 on: October 31, 2008, 11:47:42 AM »
I believe a prog called Scout told me the speed of mine, but I'll check when I get the chance for you.
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #63 on: October 31, 2008, 11:50:39 AM »
Thanks! Scout is a 68k app and I have no idea how the 68k emulation functions in OS4. Will it be able to run inside the emulated 68020 processor and report on real hardware?

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #64 on: October 31, 2008, 12:03:28 PM »
Scout confirmed as after launching it and clicking on 'System' I'm seeing "PPC: 604e / 233Mhz"

I'm not running OS4 at the mo but it's worth giving it a try mate :-)
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #65 on: October 31, 2008, 02:26:02 PM »
use Scout for OS4 then! ;-) (is on Aminet)

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #66 on: November 01, 2008, 04:47:59 PM »
Moto

It appears that if you fully boot into OS4, do a warm reset and then hold both down both mouse buttons, you get some additional information at the 'Amiga Early Startup Control' screen.

Mine says:-

CPU: 604e V9.516 231 Mhz
L1 cache: 32K, L2 cache 0K
Memory: 64MB Frequency: 66 Mhz

The speed will be relevant to your question. It reminds me that I need to put in some more memory, as I've only got 22MB left after booting into OS4 :-)
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #67 on: November 01, 2008, 05:40:53 PM »
@Framiga
Thanks! I didn't know there was an OS4 version.

@A4000_Mad
I've been meaning to have a look at the new Early Startup screen, and I'm also curious to know what "Boot with no s-s" looks like now. I'll have another play later :-)

I did find out the speed through Scout, and it's a 166MHz PPC with an 040.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #68 on: November 01, 2008, 10:38:19 PM »
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I've been meaning to have a look at the new Early Startup screen, and I'm also curious to know what "Boot with no s-s" looks like now. I'll have another play later :-)


Actually, I haven't seen any new one. It's the same old one, but if you do the warm reset while keeping both mouse buttons held down, it has more info on the screen. I think it's probably just to do with the CSPPC being present as it happens when running OS3.1 with WarpOS too.

"Boot with no s-s" doesn't look any different either. In fact, when I use it with the Ultra Wide SCSI drive connected to the CSPPC, all commands appear to be not executable.
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #69 on: November 02, 2008, 01:04:30 PM »
AmigaOS4 for classic have its own early ss screen.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #70 on: November 02, 2008, 01:46:14 PM »
How do you get to see it Framiga? (if I switch on while keeping both mouse buttons held down, I just see that usual 'Amiga Early Startup Control' screen)
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #71 on: November 02, 2008, 02:01:11 PM »
after a warm reboot from AOS4 (or right after the first reboot when you switchON the system).

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #72 on: November 02, 2008, 02:10:15 PM »
Thanks for that Framiga :pint:

So, what I said below was correct:-

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It appears that if you fully boot into OS4, do a warm reset and then hold both down both mouse buttons, you get some additional information at the 'Amiga Early Startup Control' screen.  Mine says:-  CPU: 604e V9.516 231 Mhz L1 cache: 32K, L2 cache 0K Memory: 64MB Frequency: 66 Mhz


I just needed to click on 'Boot With No Startup-Sequence' after doing it. Now the commands are working fine  8-)
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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #73 on: November 02, 2008, 02:16:11 PM »
another couple of interesting OS4 classic features:

with CTRL+ALT+ALT you can cold reboot (useful to switch between different OSs)

and (as you have noticed) the CSPPC Early Boot Menu, is available only after a cold reboot.

Quite everything is ignored after OS4 kernel is loaded.

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Re: Red then blue screen when booting OS4 Classic from CD
« Reply #74 on: November 02, 2008, 05:10:39 PM »
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with CTRL+ALT+ALT you can cold reboot (useful to switch between different OSs)

8-)

Thanks again. Because of that I might go for an OS3.9 and OS4 dual-boot system :-)
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