A2000 Formatted HELP!

[ddogg66]

The formatting go ok?

You had any luck copying the OS across?

JohnN

Well, JohnN has been dedicating a lot of his time to me over IRC and has been overly helpful. He has spent *hours* helping me with my machine-a true Amiga saint! I would be so lost without him and IRC. the posting method is very slow compared to the chat.

Anyway I have done so many things to my system over the last 2 days it would be impossible to document it all here. In a nutshell, I was able to get the HD to mount by loading the trumcard floppy and booting while holding down the left mouse key (as wain so kindly pointed out). I then used the Trumpcard s/w to format and partition my drive. After i copied WB 1.2 over to dh0: and rebooted on the HD, I then installed my toaster 2.0 s/w w/o a hitch...
except..
now when i boot from HD, after installing toaster soft, i get this message:

setpatch:Unknown command
setpatch failed return code 10
1>

All i want to do is get my workbench up so I can start the toaster soft. What must i do? All the files are in order and dh0: is mounted.

thanks all! :-D

[Druideck]

whoops! look above for my message.
Druideck

[Druideck]

Do you have 1.3 disks? i would install that or

copy setpatch from C drawer of 1.3 over to
C drawer of your DH0: and try again!

It sounds like the setpatch file is missing.

[Amigadude]

ddogg66 wrote:
now when i boot from HD, after installing toaster soft, i get this message:

setpatch:Unknown command
setpatch failed return code 10
1>
 

after you get the above message insert the workbench floppy disk & type:
copy df0:c/setpatch c:

As a side note once this is setup it might be an idea to create a directory on dh1: called backupsys and do:
copy dh0: dh1:backupsys all

[Desmon]

@DoomMaster

I don't hang around AO too much any more, and your post could explain it for a few people....

The A2091 is the best SCSI Controller card that you can get for an Amiga 2000.

What crap. I have at least four controllers for A2000s that'd beat the crap out of any of my 2091s.

Even with the latest firmware and a WD -08 SCSI inteface chip, the 2091 is dog slow and extremely unreliable.

Please post about something you know.

[ddogg66]

type:
copy df0:c/setpatch c:

This is the response i get

can't open copy df0:c/setpatch c: for input object not found

...and another thing.
If I hold down the left mouse key and boot off the WB1.2 floppy my HD partitions will mount.
If i don't hold down the left mouse button my HD will not mount.  
If i boot with no floppy then i get the setpatch error on boot??

I don't get it. if setpatch is a file missing from the WB1.2 disk, then why can't my miggy find that file when i try to copy from df0: to dh0: ? I can't find a file named "setpatch" anywhere in my WB1.2 floppy dir. what is it? and where is it?

[fx]

to my best knowledge, setpatch patches some things in the OS which might not be in ROM (last minute fixes?), you could maybe survive without setpatch but it's definitely a good thing to have. Setpatch resides in the C drawer of the Workbench disk. The C drawer holds almost all commands which is used by AmigaDOS such as copy, dir (I think) and so on.

You could always boot up your Workbench disk, go into the C directory and see if you can see the file when you type dir.  This is simply done by typing:

cd df0:c/
dir

If you see the file you should be able to copy it to your hd with the copy command

copy df0:c/setpatch dh0:c/setpatch

I hope this helps

[xyth]

It's been a long time since I used WB1.2 or 1.3 and I don't remember if these came with or required the SetPatch command or not.

It's sounds like Setpatch isn't anywhere on your Workbench disks, so perhaps your setup will run fine without it.

What you need to do is to stop the computer trying to run it at startup.  To do this you need to use a text editor of some sort (try "Ed" in the "C" directory) and edit your startup-sequence.  This file can be found in the S directory of your Hard drive (DH0: or Workbench: or whatever you've called it).

Near or at the top of this file should be a line that looks something like:

   C:Setpatch

If you put a semicolon ";" in front of this then AmigaDOS will not try and run this line.  It should now look like this:

   ;C:Setpatch
Save the file and try booting again from HD.

It's possible that the Setpatch command not being present might cause problems further down the line, like I said it's been a while since I used WB1.3.

But hopefully this will help you out.