Partitioning a real drive with WUAE and OS3.9

[Thomas]

Another thing is when I then go back into HDToolBox it displays the extra partition but when I click on it both that partition and DH3 are selected as if they are one partition and not 2. Strange.

This sounds like a bug in HDToolbox. I have heard that HDtoolbox sometimes creates overlapping partitions, but I never experienced it myself.

How did you start partitioning the HDD ? Did you choose one of the standard setups (1, 2, 4, 8 partitons) and then moved around the partitions HDToolbox created or did you delete all pre-installed partitions and created your own ones one after the other ?

Can you delete all partitions (except the first one if it's already filled with files), save the changes and then check what HDToolbox shows ? Can you delete the dh1_0 partition ?

If you don't get it sorted, please install tsgui, run it, select one partition of your hdd and choose "save RDB to file" from the menu. Attach the resulting file here or send it to me by e-mail, then I can examine and repair it.

Bye,
Thomas

[soulboy]

How did you start partitioning the HDD ? Did you choose one of the standard setups (1, 2, 4, 8 partitons) and then moved around the partitions HDToolbox created or did you delete all pre-installed partitions and created your own ones one after the other ?
Thomas

I deleted them all and then created my own.

Can you delete all partitions (except the first one if it's already filled with files), save the changes and then check what HDToolbox shows ? Can you delete the dh1_0 partition ?
Thomas

Ok I will do that.

Update: I could delete all the partitions including the dh1_0 one.

If you don't get it sorted, please install tsgui, run it, select one partition of your hdd and choose "save RDB to file" from the menu. Attach the resulting file here or send it to me by e-mail, then I can examine and repair it.
Thomas

Ok sure thanks for the help

Gareth

[soulboy]

Strangely when I was recreating the strange partition to run tsgui it didn't happen this time.

What I did was create one boot partition of 1.9gb and then tried to partition the rest of the drive as on partition and it worked. I then tried two boot partitions at the start of the disk and it worked too and finnally when I went to my original configuration 3 1.9gb boot partitions and the rest as one big partition it just worked. I am formatting them all now and will let you know the results.

I wonder if this was fixed by explicitly deleting the extra partition.

G

[soulboy]

Ok it appears I have stable partitions now. However when I moved my disk over to my 1200 it wouldn't boot. I wonder should your boot partions be FFS ? Or can they be any file system ?

Thanks

[Thomas]

The boot partition can have any file system which is stored in the RDB.

"Wouldn't boot" is not enough information. Does the drive spin up ? Do partitions appear in the early startup menu ? Do you get any error message or just the insert-disk screen ? Is anything of the afrementioned different after you pressed Ctrl-A-A ?

[soulboy]

Hi the disk spins up but it the amiga goes straight through to the kickstart screen. If I hold both mouse buttons during boot the drives partitions don't show up in boot options.

I am able to boot from the disk in WinUAE tho.

Other than partition, format and install the OS is there anything else needed ? I did set the boot partition as bootable with the priority as 1 with all other  partitions as 0. Does HDToolBox create the RDB?

update: if I press control A, A then it does boot but I am getting a lot of crashes. I will try to reinstall OS3.9 and see what happens.

Gareth

[soulboy]

Ok If I press CAA a few times eventually it starts to boot but crashes if my Apollo 1240 is installed. If I take it out then I can boot but I am unable to us 3.9 with only such limited memory etc. I guess I should probably start a new thread in the hardware section.

[Thomas]

Sounds like a power problem. Is this in the desktop case with the original power supply ?

[soulboy]

Sounds like a power problem. Is this in the desktop case with the original power supply ?

No I am using a 400watt atx psu and the 1240 works under 3.1. I read in another thread you should remove 68040.library but I couldnt find it. Also the install disk for the 1240 seems to be actually combined with the 60 version. Anyway the disk isn't bootable and when I click on the install script it loads it into an editor rather than execute.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/apollo1260