New AmigaOne firmware available

[ikir]

Leuwen, Belgium - October 6th 2004.
In preparation for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the much improved U-Boot 1.1.1 for AmigaOne SE and XE motherboards.

* Support for multiple graphics cards. At this time the last graphics card (usually the AGP card) is used for primary display. Later versions will include an option to choose.
* Support for booting off a Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller. This feature has to be selected manually at the moment, by entering setenv ide sii from the U-Boot shell.
* New CPU support: IBM PowerPC 750GX is now fully supported.
* A problem has been fixed that made the U-Boot environment settings unavailable when rebooting from Linux.
* Support for LBA48 IDE Drivers, i.e. you can now boot off drives that are bigger than 160 GB.
* Support for the new Second-Level Bootloader (that can boot Linux besides AmigaOS), to be distributed with the upcoming AmigaOS 4 update.
* Numerous bug fixes and improvements.

Source and complete announcement here:
AmigaWorld.net

[Matt_H]

Cool. Will install this weekend. Hopefully we can look forward to the pre-release update Real Soon Now. As soon as some information comes out about patching that stupid VIA IDE problem, I will be one happy camper. :-)

[mikeymike]

KennyR won't be satisfied until I do this:

 :banana:

[RacerX]

Thanks Hyperion!

:banana:

I suppose the update instructions are the same as previous updates?

[legion]

KennyR in 3... 2.... 1...


 :-?



 :lol:

[redrumloa]

KennyR won't be satisfied until I do this:

In the absence of KennyR, i will take his place;-)

God I hate that dancing bannana!! The only time I use it is when I am being sarcastic!

[Zorro]

Good news...

Now, if only the clouds that are covering the Party Pack discount of 100$ were "cleared" from someone (amiga, kmos, Peter Parker, anyone... :-? ),
I will buy this door to my beloved AmigaOS4...  :-(

[Crumpster]

Hoorah! Well Done Hyperion.

This is great as I've only just got a hold of the Pre-Release in the last week or so! (I got a developer board which wasn't included in the earlybird offer, then lack of time and funds stopped me getting it sooner).

Now I've got it and due to work and girlfriend contraints I haven't had chance to install OS4-Pre on my A1 yet. Argh!!:-x

But thanks to this update, it gives my an exuse to  get it up and running this weekend!:-D

Thanks again Hyperion,

Graham C

[mikeymike]

Personally I think we should do away with the dancing banana too :-)

[jj]

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[SilvrDrgn]

redrumloa wrote:

God I hate that dancing bannana!! The only time I use it is when I am being sarcastic!

Here's a big one just for you!!!

[Elektro]

Now I have to paste that too...



 :-P

[cecilia]

WOOT!
I LOVE my banana!

I've been hearing about this new U-boot for a couple of weeks and it sounds like most of the improvements that I have been beotching and moaning about have been added.
yeah!

[Waccoon]

Where do these cultural icons come from?!  Emphasis on "cult".

Did Hyperion improve the installer, too?

[ikir]

@Waccoon
Writing diskboot 500000 x:0 is too difficult?
:-)

@Bananas fan
Thery are... great :-D LOL
I want to use one of these when the update arrive :-)