Which OS Would Be The Best Amiga Way Forward...

[Franko]

Ok... First off thanks to Bloodline for the AROS ADF to let me see for myself just what this thing is all about...

I thought I'd mark the occasion of me actually using a different OS on me miggy by making a wee video of the whole process from start to finish...
(felt a bit like christmas actually)...

However... It didnae wurk...

Nowt but a quick greenish flash and a never ending black screen...

Oh well you've read the posts, now watch the movie...

(popcorn is optional)...

AROS (Not) on me A1200, a story of adventure & excitement that ended in tragedy and epic failure...
(soundtrack not available on any good record labels... thank gawd)...
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[bloodline]

Hmmm, you'll need to disable your HD and blizzard board, as I had to do the same to get it to boot. It seems to work best with older software at the moment

[wawrzon]

@bloodline:
??
why dont you check the current nightly, and its softkick image?
i booted 1200/blizzard60 with aros no problems few days ago last time. not disabling anything. you just have to choose df0: as your boot device in early startup to softkick from floppy (and best have installed aros on highest priority boot partition on hd).
i have no blizzard scsi, so used internal ide, but toni assured me this work too.

the problem is with a4ks, especially csppc, this is just becoming supported, but 1200 was no problem when i first tried.

[Franko]

@ Bloodline

Tried all the things you suggested in the PM but still no luck...

Just realised from your post there "that I'm a diddy" spent all last night trying to get it to work on my Blizzard 060/PPC for the simple reason of the ".elf" in the filename which always make me automatically think that this is PPC software and therefore I needed to run it on my PPC board (which is pretty dumb of me cos the whole point is that this is the 68k version). doh...

Now I'll give it a try one my plain Blizzard 060 or my plain Blizzard 030 (or any of the others I have around) and see if it works on those, cos I think myself it has something to do with the BPPC board... oh well... if at first you don't succeed put in ra boot and then ra heid...
 
@ Wawrzon

I'll need to try downloading one the other versions again and see if my mac can unarchive them instead...

[Kesa]

@Franko. I don't know what's scarier. The Amiga crashing or the commentary :roflmao:

[bloodline]

@ Bloodline

Tried all the things you suggested in the PM but still no luck...

Just realised from your post there "that I'm a diddy" spent all last night trying to get it to work on my Blizzard 060/PPC for the simple reason of the ".elf" in the filename which always make me automatically think that this is PPC software and therefore I needed to run it on my PPC board (which is pretty dumb of me cos the whole point is that this is the 68k version). doh...

Now I'll give it a try one my plain Blizzard 060 or my plain Blizzard 030 (or any of the others I have around) and see if it works on those, cos I think myself it has something to do with the BPPC board... oh well... if at first you don't succeed put in ra boot and then ra heid...
 
@ Wawrzon

I'll need to try downloading one the other versions again and see if my mac can unarchive them instead...

@Franko

I've not tried a newer build yet, but my old ADF image really didn't like my BlizzPPC board... Which I have now replaced with my Blizzard 1230 IV... That's much happier.

[Franko]

@Franko. I don't know what's scarier. The Amiga crashing or the commentary :roflmao:

That's nothing you should try listening the bugger all the time, never shuts up so he does...

[ifu]

I voted AROS because it is open source and will therefore not die as long as there are amiga addicted programmers out there . Although i think the best way forward would be if AROS and MorphOS would and could join forces. Mayby they could form AMOS

[wawrzon]

franko, listen, ive mentioned above that cyberstorm ppc is a troublemaker here. it has not bootstraped aros last time i tried. it can be easily assumed blizzard ppc will be a similar culprit. replace your accel wit a pure 68k and it will work most likely.

besides, i think these issues are ironed out soon, toni is working on it.

[Franko]

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@ Bloodline & Wawrzon

I didn't get a chance yet to try out Bloodlines ADF on one of my other miggies yet but I'll be testing it out shortly on an plain 030 & 060 A1200...

Hopefully this time it'll work and I'll let you know what the results are...

[trekiej]

I love it.

[Franko]

@ Bloodline & Wawrzon

Ok just tried to use Bloodlines ADF on the following setups but all with the same results:- Green Flash followed by a black screen, no floppy activity at all (not even a click in the floppy)...

Blizzard060/PCC 256MB RAM
Blizzard060 60Mhz 128MB RAM
Blizzard030 MKIV 50Mhz 64MB RAM
Blizzard030 MKIII 50Mhz 32MB RAM
GVP30 MKIV 50Mhz 4MB RAM
VIPER030 28Mhz 32MB RAM
MBX 1200z 4 & 8MB RAM
A1207 4 & 8 MB RAM

Thought I'd take a pic of me boards seen as I had dug them all out...

(just realised I've lost one me 4/8MB RAM boards, can't find it anywhere, how the frig can you lose a RAM Board... )

[bloodline]

@ Bloodline & Wawrzon

Ok just tried to use Bloodlines ADF on the following setups but all with the same results:- Green Flash followed by a black screen, no floppy activity at all (not even a click in the floppy)...

Blizzard060/PCC 256MB RAM
Blizzard060 60Mhz 128MB RAM
Blizzard030 MKIV 50Mhz 64MB RAM
Blizzard030 MKIII 50Mhz 32MB RAM
GVP30 MKIV 50Mhz 4MB RAM
VIPER030 28Mhz 32MB RAM
MBX 1200z 4 & 8MB RAM
A1207 4 & 8 MB RAM

Thought I'd take a pic of me boards seen as I had dug them all out...

(just realised I've lost one me 4/8MB RAM boards, can't find it anywhere, how the frig can you lose a RAM Board... )

Weird, I have the same Blizz 030 mkIV with 32Meg

How long did you let it sit for? Also as soon as the machine resets get the softkick floppy out of the drive (the faster you can do this the better)!

[rvo_nl]

I voted other. I would have said 4.0 but it is not compatable with classic machines. Classic Amiga's are my main area of interest in the Amiga world. I guess my vote goes to 3.9.

+1 though ofcourse os4 is perfectly compatible with my classic machine.

[Franko]

Weird, I have the same Blizz 030 mkIV with 32Meg

How long did you let it sit for? Also as soon as the machine resets get the softkick floppy out of the drive (the faster you can do this the better)!

Tried all sorts of things, waiting for up to 5 minutes, being as quick as possible taking the floppy out, inserting another bootable floppy as quickly as possible, tested it using two different A1200 motherboard revisions, tried it with 3.0 & 3.1 ROMS...

Strange thing is there is no sign of life on the floppy drive at all (ie: no lights or even the faintest of motor sounds or clicking noises) just the green flash then nothing... :confused:

[bloodline]

Tried all sorts of things, waiting for up to 5 minutes, being as quick as possible taking the floppy out, inserting another bootable floppy as quickly as possible, tested it using two different A1200 motherboard revisions, tried it with 3.0 & 3.1 ROMS...

Strange thing is there is no sign of life on the floppy drive at all (ie: no lights or even the faintest of motor sounds or clicking noises) just the green flash then nothing... :confused:

I'll upload a newer build for you later.