efika and morphOS

[pyrre]

I need a little help
I am trying to install MOS to my efika.
But i am not able to format the HDD.
It mount DH0, and when i partition the hdd it mount another DH0. deleting and partitioning the hdd again mounts another DH0. now i have tree dh0 and one DH1.....

How do i remove mountpoints so i can format the actual DH0 drive?

[krashan]

How do you boot MorphOS? Try to boot from USB drive or via network, then run HDConfig.

[pyrre]

I boot from a USB pen. running the "morphos-2.2-efikainstall.img" and in wb screen clicking the installation button. following the setup. partitioning the hdd as i seem fit ( 10gig dh0 and 27 gig dh1).

After a reboot i now have only one DH0.
however...

Volume name: (unnamed)
volume is not initialized

when i try to format it i get:
"invalid volume name" you need to specify a name wich does not collide with other volume or device names.

And i cannot format the disk...

[Fingers]

I had problems like that when putting a new HDD in my Efika.

Do you own a real Amiga with IDE capability? If so, partition & format the drive with it first (instead of doing it with MorphOS install .img) & you will have no further problems.

If you don't own a suitable Amiga, use WinUAE to partition & format the drive.

I have no idea why you are experiencing the problem (like I was too), but the above method works great! :-D

PZ.

[pyrre]

I have an a1200 with os 3.9
However... i am not "steady" with HDtoolbox and using SFS...
I crashed the disk in the A1200 last time i tried...

[Fingers]

Take out the existing HDD from your A1200 when you do it & just use the Install3.1 floppy to do the job...that way you don't risk anything.

Hang on, I'm confused...your signature lists heaps of cool hardware, but you are scared to format a HDD? :-?

PZ.

[pyrre]

hehehe...
yea, strange isn't it :-D
You see, i am a hardware guy.
I love tinkering with hardware. (and i NEVER get rid of old hardware!!!)
But software scares the living {bleep} out of me.

Me and HDtoolbox never was any good friends when it came to install/use a file system other than FFS...
In my A1200 i have only 1 gig partitions on a 5 gig drive...
every time i go beyond 1 gig and using other file system than FFS i trash the partition and loose all the data...
luckily i keep backups on my zip disks...

[pyrre]

What SFS shoul i use?
SFS for 68k or os4 PPC?

UPDATE:
in my A1200, no matter what i do. The disk drive form the efika just wont show up.
It is partitioned with SFS. the sfs that comes with morphOS.
HDtoolbox finds it, and it finds the partitions as well.
But the drives so not want to show up on WB screen.


UPDATE 2:
The diskdrive from the efika end it partitions shows up in early start menu....

[zylesea]

@ Pyrre

Is your hd really new or was it already formate with another computer? if so, you have to to wipe out the MBR and apply an RDB.

from morphos-team.net helpdesk:

Q: I want to set-up a SFS partition, but its not available in HDConfig and iWizard. How is this working?
A: The problem is that you selected MBR as partition table which is not very flexible and no even contains a real checksum. The solution is to change the boot block type to RDB. This can be done by using right mouse button above the hard drive image. In the newly appeared context menu you can select RDB. After this is done, SFS can easily be chosen via the GUI.

But if you really want to set up the hd with your 1200 use ffs for a start, and reformat the partition with SFS once the hdd is reswapped to the Efika. But I suggest to try to solve the prob with the efika. Don't mess with OS4 sfs and MorphOS, it won't end well.  

[pyrre]

It was formatted with MBR when i got it.
But after a session in the a1200 earlier it has RDB.
and RDB was selected in mos setup when i tried to partition the drive.
The only problem i can see now is to format the drive.
And i do not understand the format command in morphos.
I always get "unvalid arguments" or something alike.
Is there a GUI way of formatting the hdd in morphos setup?

EDIT:

Nevermind the format question.
i found it reading the MorphOS readme...
 :-D  :-D  :-D

[pyrre]

Now i have installed the OS..
typing:
ok boot ide:0 boot.img
and the system boots just fine.

However?

How do i make it autoboot?

[pyrre]

I just had to.
this posty is made from the efika running morphOS.

[Fingers]

From MorphOS website FAQ:

"Q: How do I setup or modify the auto-boot feature? (Open Firmware)
A: First make sure its working when typing the commands by performing a test boot.

Then, define a boot file and set options. Boot command and boot device will be added by using the Open Firmware.
> setenv boot-file boot.img ramdebug

There are alias names available if you did not remove them, so this /pci/ stuff can be replaced by a simple ide:0.
> setenv boot-device /pci/ide/disk@...

Now, we set the auto boot delay. By default the Open Firmware counts down from 5 before starting auto boot. This would be a 5 second delay. It is possible to set up lower or higher numbers. It is recommended to refrain from using values below 1000, because it may be very hard to re-enter the Open Firmware command line interface again otherwise. The optimal values are between 3000 and 10000. (4000 equals 4 seconds, 1000 equals 1 second, and so on.)
> setenv auto-boot-timeout 3000

You may skip this for now. Using "boot" command without any argument will use the configuration specified above. If its working fine you finally can enable automatic booting using those set-ups.
> setenv auto-boot? true
"

It works for me :-)

PZ.

[pyrre]

too much info in one post for me to handle.. :-D
correct me if i am wrong..

step 1
setting the boot device
> setenv boot-device ide:0

step 2
setting the boot img
> setenv boot-file boot.img ramdebug

step 3
setting the  autoboot timer
> setenv auto-boot-timeout 5000

step 4
enabling the autoboot
>setenv auto-boot? true

My "bios" battery is dead. it is not able to hold the time settings. will that affect anything other than time settings?


EDIT:
and another question:
Why do i only have 73mb ram?
I thought the efika had 128mb

[Fingers]

A 5 second (5000) timeout will prove to be a lot longer wait than you think. I suggest 2 seconds (2000), as you still have enough time to kill auto-boot if you want, but don't have to wait ages for it to start up.

PZ.