Re: Frustrated Amiga needs help at booting from HD!
Hello Patryk,
On 17-Aug-99, you wrote:
P£> Napisane 16-Sie-99 przez: Lee Elliott...
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P£>> To get my A1200 to boot after I'd completed StartInstall, I needed
P£>> to boot using:-
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P£>> amiboot-5.6 linuxamiga root=/dev/sda1 ro
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P£>> which I put into an IconX file. Obviously I'm using a SCSI HD
P£>> whereas you're using IDE but the 'root=' may be important.
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P£>> Definitely important, I had to make a copy of linuxamiga and rename
P£>> it to vmlinux. I found this using SnoopDOS.
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P£> You may also have the proper kernel-image filename specified on the
P£> command line like '-k kernelfilename'. '-k linuxamiga' in your case
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P£> 'amiboot-5.6 -d -k linuxamiga --keep-video video=cyberfb:1152x886-8
P£> root=/dev/hda7 ro'
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P£> e.g. is mine. where '-d' gives you some more detailed info before
P£> actual boot and lets you change your mind before the inevitable
P£> AmigaOS dead. '-k' specifies the kernel filename and so on... All of
P£> this is described somewhere in the docs.
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Thanks for the usefull info - I didn't find the m68k docs untill I'd got
past this point, and as it appeared to work 'normally' I didn't think
to go back and check.
Regards,
LeeE
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