Can OS3.9 patches run fully on an A4000D?

[number6]

Hello all.

I have been with the help of a friend been putting together a nice A4000D with a WarpEngine and 68040 @ 40Mhz. I now have 128MB of 60ns RAM on my WarpEngine as well. So I have disabled the wait state and it all seems stable. Plus a nice PicassoIV to boot! :-)

I have a 9GB SCSI HD on the WarpEngine's SCSI bus, but put a CDRW on the A4000 IDE bus. My plan was to use the OS3.9 scsi.device with the CDRW to avoid any IDE fix software, a plan that worked well on my A1200D. But so far the A4000 refuses to budge and OS3.9 won't let me do this!

My friend told I need both Boing bags installed for a fully working system. So this is what I tried to do. But, I found I always have to disable the ROM patch, as the machine cannot boot afterwards. :-?

I've got the WarpEngine 68040.library in there and both BoingBags installed. I made sure the OS3.9 patch files are in there and activated in start up. But to no go.

It always ends up the same. The patch installs, reboot ands the machine just sits there with the floppy drive clicking. As if it if started booting and then lost the drive. The HD light flashes briefly before this happens. I can put in a floppy but it just reads it and stops.

Now it looks like the early startup screen is still "there" as when I hold down the mouse buttons after a reset the LED flickers. Like it does when it comes up. But there is only a blank display. Nothing on my PicassoIV VGA out nor the RGB. And without key shortcuts I can do nothing.

I tried to set echo on in the start up script but that was useless as it never gets to execute  it after the first SetPatch installs and reboots! I'm really lost here. I've spend months trying to figure this out but it seems no one is around who has ever fully installed OS3.9BB1+2 on an A4000 with a WarpEngine! :-?

Like many others, I had updated at one time.
Then I elected to do a fresh install of OS3.9 (CD), filenote the lot, and install BB1 and BB2, just to see what would happen.
No issues. WarpEngine 68040 @ 40Mhz with last HD on chain terminated. CDRW/DVD added to IDE, due to lack of supply of SCSI CDRW replacements.

Maybe someone else can be more specific about the install advisement on using the old ROM file in the cases where the newer ROM file fails. I don't think I ever quite learned anything about the true difference between the 2 and why some machines successfully can use the new file whilst others can not.

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[Vanilla]

Thanks for the info number6. Would you reccommend wiping the boot HD and installing again? Even a clean OS3.9 install is not clean as it does it's OS3.1/5 files then it's OS3.9 files. And then it has to be updated twice! Be good if it could be slipstreamed. :-)

I suppose I could try backing up and then doing this.

BTW what do you mean by filenote? Did you actually comment every file and later see what files had no comment? And I suppose it has to be updated in expert mode as I've been told you must tell the installer to update your system.

[number6]

Thanks for the info number6. Would you reccommend wiping the boot HD and installing again? Even a clean OS3.9 install is not clean as it does it's OS3.1/5 files then it's OS3.9 files. And then it has to be updated twice! Be good if it could be slipstreamed. :-)

I suppose I could try backing up and then doing this.

BTW what do you mean by filenote? Did you actually comment every file and later see what files had no comment? And I suppose it has to be updated in expert mode as I've been told you must tell the installer to update your system.

You'll have to forgive me. My system is not set up atm, so I have to go from my memory, which may or may not be correct.
Your idea of backing up is excellent. I have always used a 2 drive system, with everything cloned (including partition sizes/info). You can call it a poor man's raid system, but it works. It also provides a 2nd boot to access in the early startup menu, should something go wrong with "experiments".
iirc, the installer allows you to choose a partition for the install. If so, then I probably created a fresh partition for my install of OS3.9 (and Boing Bags), while maintaining my OS3.0 boot partition, which was all I had prior to OS3.9. Later I just prioritized the new OS3.9 partition for boot.
Yes. I installed OS3.9 and wildcard filenoted the entire install on fresh partition as "OS3.9 CD" I did the same for "Boing Bag 1". Currently, then, all non-filenoted files are by default, from Boing Bag 2, but they could be filenoted as well.
If you perform a fresh install, I hope whatever method you choose performs as well as mine did.

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