Okay, checked and nothing was listing under filesystems in RDB.
I did check most of the other screenmodes. Since the screenmode for the installer CD worked, I've been sticking to that one for now.
When the machine starts up it's in the terminal-like environment with white letters. When it does the initial, short countdown, it then shows one option in RED: DHO AmigaOS4. I have to choose that option, because there is no countdown. I'm guessing this is like a grub-like selection with no default countdown?
I'm using an Radeon9000Pro in the AGP for this part. I've long ago removed the RadeonHD card.
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Okay, maybe another method would be better (until I can get the serial output).
Pretend you just got an A1XE board, with no visible dma or usb fixes.
It has Uboot 1.1.1 loaded, you just went through and reset the uboot settings to factory default.
You have 1 DVD drive on the primary IDE controller, as master, 1 32GB HDD slave drive on the same primary
The only cards installed are the AGP card and a sound card (I can remove that too in case).
The keyboard is ps2 and the mouse is USB (I can change to ps2 mouse too if needed)
The uboot settings have the IDE CD as the boot1 device, there is no *_conf file or *_xfer file
How would you go about setting things up? I can do anything at this point without worry about losing data
The CD is the Amiga4.0 final iso (not the 2007 update though, that would be later)
What I did was to go to the intuitionbase.com article on uboot to follow the page:
http://intuitionbase.com/static.php?section=uboot
(I had looked at the quickstart guide but it was for linux. I didn't want to bother with debian and just wanted to go for the real Amiga OS, should I have done differently?
the uboot instructions on that website have these commands:
] setenv preboot
] setenv bootdelay
] setenv menuboot_delay 5
] setenv bootcmd "menu; run menuboot_cmd"
] saveenv
I also added the setting: autostart=on, and after reading on the forums, I created a file called a1ide_conf with the value 2100.
What would you have done differently?
Thanks so much to everyone. I so hope I can get this working soon.