booting AlphaGen as Amiga 1200

[blackhula]

Hi there. This is an easy one for you geniuses out there...  

I've got an AlphaGen, the rackmountbox with a 1200 motherboard inside.

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/bundles/magicbox.html

It boots from floppy to the characer generator program, and pulls imagery off of the built in CD rom drive. I'm trying to boot it into a standard amiga mode. odd thing is that it has a hard drive in there, but it behaves as if there weren't workbench installed on it.

I did boot it while holding the mouse buttons, and booted without WB startup, but I didn't get very far.  When I listed what was in WB startup, there was nothing associated with the Alphagen. So this is kind of weird. it's also a very long time since I've tried this sort of monkeying around with an Amiga, so there are likely a million things I've forgotten.

Perhaps I should just dig out a Workbench floppy and see if it'll boot from that?

Thanks for any help!

[Cammy]

When you have access to the AmigaDOS Shell, type this:

Ed S:Startup-Sequence

And see if that Alphagen program is in there, instead of all the regular Workbench startup stuff (ending with LoadWB). I think the best thing for you to do is move everything in the root of the boot drive into a temporary drawer, then install a fresh copy of Workbench 3.1 on there.

Do you have any way of getting files onto the computer apart from floppy disk?

[magnetic]

blackhula

ever have any luck with this?

[pwermonger]

Also check User-Startup along with Startup-sequence for whatever program is being loaded instead of workbench. I assume, if it's booting off floppy, that it might not have workbench on hard disk. Check those two files in the "S" directory on the floppy for what programs are loaded.
 
It's possible they used the hard drive mainly for users to save their work.