AROS-Max-0.2.2 (Stable) is now online

[Argo]

Yes, on all the computers I have. Though only one has a PS/2 mouse. The only computer that I've got it to work on is my mother's old Compaq laptop. Now just to get it out of her sight.
It doesn't seem like it likes my Matrox G550.

[Merc]

I managed to get it to run for some reason on an old Athlon 800 system, but no luck on my 2100+  Even with the boot floppy it does the same thing.

[HopperJF]

Downloading now  :-D
I am going to try this on my 16-colour Celeron 466, it's Amiga so it shouldn't need more than 16 colours to run right?
Well if not then I can test it on the parent's Duron 750  :-)

[Holley]

is your 2100+ a 64 bit jobbie?  Some people are running on the 32bit Athlons ok, but IIRC there's an issue with the 64bit ones ...

I'm afraid hardware support at the mo only caters for really 'vanilla' setups, anyone's welcome to start writing more drivers though :-D

[bloodline]

I am going to try this on my 16-colour Celeron 466, it's Amiga so it shouldn't need more than 16 colours to run right?

Well it will downgrade to 16 colours it that's all that's available but it will look like AmigaOS 3.1 :-)

There has been talk of making the minimum requirement a Pentium for AROS... though the current builds should work fine in a 486 :-)

Well if not then I can test it on the parent's Duron 750

That would suit AROS better :-D

[HopperJF]

That's a 466MHz Pentium Celeron...... not a 486 but thanks anyway.

[HopperJF]

OK I've burned 2 CD's of AROS and it just won't boot. I've tried it on 3 different PC's.. they try to boot from the CD but it eventually just carries on with the boot sequence and starts to load from the HD. What am I doing wrong?

I have downloaded the ISO and put it onto a CD the mount-rainer way, I have even tried extracting the ISO and placing the files onto the CD manually. I've tried every way possible and it won't work on any of the 3 machines I tried it on. I don't think it is a hardware problem because Linux images load fine directly from CD...

[Holley]

Putting the files direct onto the CD should be ok, as long as you make sure to make it bootable ;-)

This may be whats missing, what CD burning software are you using?  On most you choose to burn an ISO right onto the CD (cutting out any involvement from yourself) and it'll set all that fine.

Also check that the Bios is set to boot from CD over HD when available, and it's just possible that if it's an old machine it doesn't support the graphical version of Grub we're running (in which case booting from the base AROS found at www.AROS.org and then warm-resetting would probably work ok).

[Hammer]

@Holley

It's Ok (AROS-MAX-0.2.2-NVIDIA)with Athlon 64 3200+/nForce3...

[HopperJF]

I am going to try putting the ISO file onto a CD, transferring it to the PCs hard drive and try burning the ISO file under Nero to see if that makes any difference.

[Holley]

Best carry this on in the forums ... I've posted there :-)

[fx]

There has been talk of making the minimum requirement a Pentium for AROS... though the current builds should work fine in a 486 :-)

I hope that 486 support remains, gonna try it out on my 486 Laptop (DX2 75MHz and 24MB RAM), if it works that would be extremely cool, I guess I would have to live with 16-colour VGA in that case though :-(