Help! Fresh OS3.9 install malfunctioning...

[Karlos]

Hi all,

I have just installed OS3.9 onto a previously completely blank, bootable FFS partition using the "Full install over 3.0/3.1 or empty drive" option.

The installation does work in that it boots up to workbench 3.9.

However, the fun stops there. Nothing seems to work since resource.library V44 cannot be opened for some reason.

A quick "version resource.library" shows resource.library 44.102 from Sep 1999.

This is a completely fresh install (no boing bags yet) on a rather unremarkable system:

BlizzPPC 603e+ 240MHz / 68040 @25MHz

256Mb 60ns Fast RAM

BVision (no RTG is installed yet, using PAL display)

10G IDE drive on motherboard IDE (boot partition is
under the 4G barrier)

IDE CDRom, via PCMCIA adaptor

I still have a bootable 3.5 partition which works fine and happens to use the exact same version of the resource.library..

Anybody experience anything like this?

Cheers,

K

[Ryu]

hmm could be a setpatch thing... are you cold booting straight into the new 3.9 setup? check the correct setpatch is there... thats about all I can think of, oh and does the requester not come up if you stop amidock from loading at the beginning? no real reason for asking, well there is but I cant be bothered to explain myself right now ;-)

[Ryu]

14.Workbench:Libs> version resource.library full
resource.library 44.103 (28/11/2001)

is what I have...

[Neo]

Have resource.library 44.103 on my system.(AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag 2)
But I think 44.102 is right since 44.103 is from 2001 after OS 3.9 was
made.

Check that the ROM update is installed.

7.System3.9:> version "AmigaOS ROM Update"
AmigaOS ROM Update 44.26

BoingBag 2 gives 44.57!

[Karlos]

Booting cold straight into it, I noticed that there wasnt the reset stage that 3.5 has. No rom update I wonder?

[Zerohero]

Most likely a missing 68040 or 68060 library, afaik. At least that's what it was for me...

Regards

[kgrach]

you need the 68040New.libray and the 68040dummy.library renamed 68040.library from DCE or Phase 5.
rename the 68040.libray to 68040old.library

Does anybody know what happened to the DCE download site.
I tried to link there and it does not exist any more.

Ohh do yourself a big Favor and ditch FFS get SFS from aminet.

Besides being Faster and Safer you can no longer invalidate your hard drive.  It also is supported under 4.0
Yesterday I set up a hard drive on my A1200 System Using SFS. Made a mirror copy of my hard drive. Updated it to 4.0 stuck it in my AmigaOne and that was the one I showed AMUSE last night.

The reason I mirrored my A1200 HD. Was this way I could show my legacy programs running under OS 4.0 without have to install them all. Yes I was being lazy. But it worked!

[Neo]

It's there just hard to find...

http://www.dcecom.de/downloads.html

:-? Why can't I do links in posts when using Voyager 3.3.

[Ryu]

@neo

you can do links... just not with the buttons, you have to use the proper syntax which the buttons would put in for you, its all in the FAQ for this site iirc... its blah same sorta thing for images etc...

@Karlos...
hmm could be 680x0 lib problem but ive never had such a problem...

@all
all you ever need for Phase5/DCE things can be got from ftp://ftp.meanmachine.ch :-)

Now does anyone have a spare IDE CD-Rom drive... mine just died :-(

[Piru]

@Zerohero

Most likely a missing 68040 or 68060 library, afaik. At least that's what it was for me...

These libraries are in the BlizzPPC flashrom, so they can't be missing.

@Karlos
I think OS 3.9 FAQ Installation Tips should help.

[Neo]

The drivers at meanmachine are a little bit older than those at DCE's
homepage but should still work. GREXX drivers work even if you don't
have a GREXX just ensure to update CGX drivers first if you have a
CyberVisionPPC board. (It will show up as a PCI board afterwards)

(Edit: Forgot that you use Blizzard board. But should work similary.)

[kgrach]

My setup is as follows.
A1200T,Phase 5 PPC 275Mhz 603+/60Mhz 68060,192MB RAM,Yamaha 2100 SCSI CDRW,Pioneer SCSI DVD, Seagate Baricuda SCSI HD 8.5G,IBM SCSI Ultrastar HD 73G,Mediator1200SX,Voodoo 5500,Abit AU-10 Sound Card,Spider USB,Win TV Card,8139 Ethernet Card,RAKA1200 Keyboard Adpater,RAMA mouse adapter,IDEKILL12,Septre 19.1"LCD Monitor. Logitech Cordless Keyboard and Trackman Marble.

To save you alot of nightmares with setting up 3.9  here is what I did

1. formatted HD with SFS .

2. Installed OS 3.9 onto HD

3. Before rebooting make sure you check the startup-sequence. Erase all that setpatch happy horse ####. This is what the begining of your Startup-sequence should look like

; $VER: Startup-Sequence_HardDrive 45.1 (25.11.00)
; Startup-Sequence for hard drive systems
C:BPPCFix install >NIL:
C:SetPatch SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" QUIET
C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21


4. Make sure you have the DCE/Phase5 libraries installed

5. installed CDROM software  from 3.9 install script

6. installed PowerPC software support Warp OS V5 from 3.9 Install script selected Wshell Support & Bvision GFX card from Question.

7. Installed BPPCFix from WarpUP archive. In the Startup-sequence before setpatch wrote  C:BPPCFix Install >NIL:
     Fixes nasty terminate message on starting desktop and is needed to prevent BB2 problems

8. Installed Boing Bag One & Two ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE STARTUP-SEQUENCE SO THAT IT READS LIKE LINE 3 before rebooting.

[Ryu]

I was told, and i dont know if its correct or not but... if you flash with the grexx flash a mediator wont work, and you cant reflash with an older flash... I did wonder about the reflash part, why wouldnt it be possible? either way I personally see no reason why I should be using the grexx flash on either of my BPPC setups so....

[kgrach]

@RYU

Good question I had A GREX installed into this mess at one time.  I wonder What I did when I installed the mediator. Is there A way to check what version you have flashed?

[lionstorm]

use reportplus from aminet : it can check your os3.9 install and report any missing/wrong/deleted files comparing to a normal os3.9.

I installed the grex flash although I dont have one just because I expected better performance with my BPPC+BVPPC which was not so I flash the older one (231099 IIRC) without problem.
Lio