Minimig Setup Help

[Philski]

Please do not change the firmware on the Minimig - we have already updated it to the most appropriate new version.  Please wait for our Technician response to your inquiry.

We do not ship the Minimig with old firmware on it.  We test every Minimig before sending to customers.

You need to use the appropriate files on the SD card to match the firmware we have flashed it with.  You get these if you buy an SD card with the Minimig.

Our Technician can point you in the right direction to which files to use.

I'll hold back on that!  Thanks, I figured it was more than likely a fault at my end.

[bbond007]

I'll hold back on that!  Thanks, I figured it was more than likely a fault at my end.

Chances are Vesalia has the wrong BIN.

I would use this BIN

http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=397

If it does not work with that then I would upgrade the firmware regardless of what Anybody said.

If my minimig was still running the original PIC software it came with (which its not, also I have an ARM now) then it would stuck with 8 character filenames, fat16 and 2GB SD card, not to mention being incompatible with all the latest cores.

[freqmax]

@Darrin, What to do if your computer doesn't run Microsoft windows regarding the "Tiny Bootloader" program?

I suppose so.... is there enough room left in the FPGA to do MP3 decoding?

Ask mikej, he has the source. And knows the statistics that is show on every synthesis run. My guess is that it might be tight.

[bbond007]

@Darrin, What to do if your computer doesn't run Microsoft windows regarding the "Tiny Bootloader" program?.

you could try and run that program under wine.

[Dwyloc]

you could try and run that program under wine.

Or do the update with an Amiga, OS4.x or MorphOS computer with the program on Aminet I linked to earlier :-)

http://aminet.net/package/comm/misc/tinyulMUI

[freqmax]

Microsoft suck. Wine is cumbersome and often incompatible. Amiga unreachable atm. Unix plz

[TheDaddy]

You might want to have a look here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60249

[tribz]

Sorry to hijack this minimig thread.

Does my hardfile need to be started from a boot.adf disk? I've got the hardfile enabled in the settings but it just sits at the kickstart screen on boot.

I've tried my Cloanto hardfiles and AmigaSYS.

Thanks!

[Darrin]

Sorry to hijack this minimig thread.

Does my hardfile need to be started from a boot.adf disk? I've got the hardfile enabled in the settings but it just sits at the kickstart screen on boot.

I've tried my Cloanto hardfiles and AmigaSYS.

Thanks!

No, as long as you're using the recommended 3.1 Kickstart (for the IDE driver) your HDF file should boot.  Make sure that when you created the HDF file in UAE that you did it in RDB mode.  You should then have partitioned it in HDToolbox like a real Amiga drive and then done a quick format on it.

[tribz]

No, as long as you're using the recommended 3.1 Kickstart (for the IDE driver) your HDF file should boot.  Make sure that when you created the HDF file in UAE that you did it in RDB mode.  You should then have partitioned it in HDToolbox like a real Amiga drive and then done a quick format on it.

Just trying to use the hard files that come with Amiga Forever, not sure how they're setup.  I'll try a new one as per above, thanks.

[freqmax]

Not possible to boot from harddisc in Kickstart 1.3 ?

[tribz]

Not possible to boot from harddisc in Kickstart 1.3 ?

Think thats a boot adf job for 1.3 with all the mount DH0:'s etc in the startup

[bbond007]

Just trying to use the hard files that come with Amiga Forever, not sure how they're setup.  I'll try a new one as per above, thanks.

I have only been able to make working hardfiles by using dummy file creator to make the hardfile, then use hdtoolbox to partitionn the "drive" on the actual minimig. None of the HDFs that came with Amiga Forever worked for me.

You can mount both under UAE and just "copy dh0: dh1: all" to convert.

[freqmax]

A500 + KS1.3 + Trumpcard works.. I know. So I hope it works with the FPGA implementations too.

[Dwyloc]

Not possible to boot from harddisc in Kickstart 1.3 ?

Booting A minimig from HD like an A600 needs the version of scsi.device found in kickstart 2.05 or higher to boot of the internal HD controller.

It is possible to create a patched version of kickstart 1.3 that contains the newer version of the scsi.device found in kickstart 2.05 and higher but its much easier to just boot of an ADF image that mounts the harddisk partition and makes the required assigns before execute ing the startup sequence found on the mounted HD partition.

IDE adapters for the A500 that add an A600/A1200 style IDE port also have the same kickstart version restrictions.

[freqmax]

How come an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 will boot from an Z-II Trumpcard 500 (SCSI) then ..?

It ought to be possible to accomplish the same unmodified operation with Minimig/Arcade..

AmigaOS versions:
"Kickstart Version 1.3 improved little on its predecessor, the most notable change being auto booting from hard drives."