Hi all,
I've an A1 G3 XE and installed a Vantec SATA SIL3114 card but the system can not boot from SATA drives at all..
Anyone here have any idea how to solve this?
You can place AmigaOS4 on a SATA partition but the SLB (Second Level Booter) and Kickstart modules must be on a bootable IDE partition. That's because UBoot can read the SLB from an IDE partition only, as lionstorm said.
In my opinion, the most elegant solution is to connect a small CompactFlash memory card to the A1's IDE port with a CF-to-IDE adapter and create a bootable partition on the card.
You can then install the whole AOS4 on that partition or just the SLB and Kickstart modules, as I've done. As soon as the Kickstart is loaded, the SATA controller becomes available.
If you are interested in my 'split' solution, please ask on the Hyperion's support forum:
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php
