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jbilander / SF500

Spitfire 500, A low-end 14 MHz Accelerator with IDE and 4/8 MB fast RAM for the Amiga 500.
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how to boot from it ? #8

Open retroman75 opened 1 year ago

retroman75 commented 1 year ago

I have made it and everything works good I just don't know how to boot from it . I have kick ver 3.1.4 do I have to patch my rom and add same extra *.device drivers ? Thank you !

jbilander commented 1 year ago

Hi,

No patching needed. It will autoboot by default if you have the CFGIN-jumper on and JP4 is open. If you still have problem it might be that the ROM-chip isn't programmed or soldered correctly. You can check in SysInfo if the driver is loaded by clicking DEVICES and scroll down the list, you should see either oktagon or oktapussy driver has been loaded (from the ROM), depending on how you set JP3.

retroman75 commented 1 year ago

Hi , drivers are loaded and I can see them in sysinfo but hddtoolbox and sysinfo do not recognize drives . I have try SD and CF adapter , Any Idea what I'm doing wrong ?

retroman75 commented 1 year ago

OK , to have drives recognized we have to change scsi.device into oktagon.device for hddtoolbox .

jbilander commented 1 year ago

Hi, ok I see you seem to have some progress now. I usually use WinUAE when partitioning and then I create a smaller FFS-partition ( couple of hundreds of megabytes) as the first primary partition so that it can boot also with KS 1.3.

https://github.com/jbilander/SF500/blob/main/images/SF500_rev1b_pic11.jpg

https://github.com/jbilander/SF500/blob/main/images/SF500_rev1b_pic12.jpg

retroman75 commented 1 year ago

I still don't know how to install workbench on the real Amiga . I have disk recognized in HDDtoolbox and I made partitions but after reset I can see them . Any ideas ? ... looks like 'save changes to disk' dose not save anything . HDsetup ends with error #80000003

jbilander commented 1 year ago

Hi, after you have created partitions and saved your changes you need to reboot the machine and load workbench once again (from a floppy, the Install Disk). Then the partitions should appear on the desktop with a icon with a questionmark with garbled text, NDOS or similar, then you need to click on it and select format in the menu. Select quick-formatting. I normally use WinUAE to prepare the CF-card since I find it much easier. Don't forget to put the Max-transfer in and hit enter when creating partitions, the bug is still lingering in 3.1.4. It was finally fixed in 3.2. Check the pictures I linked to above.