Trouble with installing classic OS4.1 on A1200T - need your Help!

[holzroller]

Hi Guys,

i hope someon has the one hint for me to solve my problem:

Have an towered A1200 with Blizzard PPC 060/50 / ppc603+ 240 and 128MB RAM + Bvision.

have tried this with two different HDD , booth in perfect condition. My Problem:

First i tried this: Building on Partition (2GB "standard file system", blocksize 2048, with "bootable" and "monted" option), the installed the OS. After finish (without any errors) i reboot the machine after removing fdd and CD. (turned it off for 20 seconds and then on - like the manual recommens.

but the OS does not boot. on the upper left corner pops an "standard Error-Window" with the text. "please insert dos partition in drife dh0" :nuts:

tried the same with making one SFS partintion, blocksize 512...

The same Problem.

Second Try. Leavin this installation on Disk. Booted with the OS4.1 Install FDD and created a second partition (bootable, mounted, SFS or FFS tried booth...)

Installed the OS at this partition and finished the procedure. Same problem after rebooting.

But: If i now boot from the Install-FDD untill the AmigaOS-Screen appears, i softreset the miggy, remove the FDD, the OS is booting from the HDD (the OS from the second Partition i Think). :nuts:

But every change i make (change language, screen resolution etc) is not saved. after rebooting the miggy with the FDD-Booting-trick (without is no booting possible), no konfig-changes made (screen resolution is the "old", language is the "old" english insted of the selected german...

The Lizzard board is configured correctly (MapROM option is set to OFF) :nuts:

Any hints? I´m desperatig... :help::help::help::help::help::help::help::help:

 

[holzroller]

solved!

solved!

Solved the Problem. installed OS3.9, created a new partition. After this and booting from the 4.1 Install-Disk i installed OS4.1 at this partition. Now all works fine, OS4.1 starts...

 

[fitzsteve]

Glad you solved it, OS4.1 Classic can be a little tricky to install and is fussy with partitions/file systems oh:

 

[holzroller]

Oh, you are right. Installed the OS many dozens times and spent a lot of time for this. Last time I was back for a whole night in front of the problem. My wife has all the next day not a word spoken to me ... But the Problem was solved after this marathon...

But now all is fine. Except the "SRAM TEST FAIL..." during the Ariadne installation-process at my A4000D. But this is another Project. frodegh supports me as well as he can.

Do you have any idea how I can solve the problem without replacing any chip at the Board? (we found this hint here at the forum...)

regards