AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition FAQ Revision 3.4 November 2014 Copyright 2001-2014 Hyperion-Entertainment CVBA Please ensure you make a backup of all your data before attempting to install. The guide will appear on the Workbench as a left out icon when you insert the Installation CD if you prefer to read it on the computer. The latest version of this FAQ will be online. Check Hyperion’s website for the latest information at: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz. Official support forums are located at http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz. Don’t forget to register your product on the Hyperion website as listed above in order to gain access to the forums. Special Notes for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition GREX 1200 or 4000 Users with Voodoo 3 graphic cards If you want to install AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and see the Installation on the output of your Voodoo 3 graphic card connected to your GREX, please use the alternate Boot Floppy named GREXBootDisk.ADF located in the root of the Installation CD. Instructions for creating this disk are in question 1.4 in this FAQ. Be sure to select that you have a GREX during the Installation. If you use the already included Boot Floppy, and choose not to create the GREXBootDisk, installation will still work and proceed on the ECS/AGA output of your Amiga. You should still select you have a GREX during Installation. You will not see any output on your Voodoo 3 until after Installation is finished and you restart your Amiga. Note: Users with Mediator or Prometheus PCI Bus-boards can use the included Boot Floppy. You do not need to create the GREX Boot Floppy. BlizzardVision/CyberVision PPC Graphic Card Users If you have a BlizzardVision or CyberVision PPC graphics card connected to your Blizzard PPC or Cyberstorm PPC AND you have the GREX firmware installed (you see a “PCI” menu entry in the setup screen of your Blizzard/Cyberstorm - hold down ESC when powering on to check), then you may use the GREXBootDisk.ADF file to create a Boot Floppy for your system. Installation will display on your BlizzardVision or CyberVision PPC output. If you use the supplied Boot Floppy, the installation will use the ESC/AGA output of your Amiga. Please refer to question 1.4 for instructions on how to create the Boot Floppy from the ADF file. The AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Boot Menu (Early Startup) AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition has an Early Startup Boot Menu that is loaded after kickstart loads. After you see the Boot splash screen press and hold both mouse buttons to access it. This special Boot Menu is currently only displayed on Native ECS or AGA output. It will not display on your Zorro or PCI Graphics card. You must have a 31Khz or 15Khz monitor attached to the RGB port of your Amiga 1200/4000 or VGA port of your Amiga 3000 to see it. In the Kicklayout file in sys:kickstart for your model of Amiga there is a “BootVGA.kmod” option near the bottom. If this is enabled (and it is by default) the output will be sent at 31Khz. Comment it out to get 15Khz output. This behavior is different from AmigaOS 4.1 Classic which displayed the AmigaOS 4.1 Boot Menu on RTG. Note that this may change in a future update. AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition FAQ 1.0 Installation/Booting 1.1 Q: Is it possible to boot the Installation CD directly from a SCSI CDROM attached to the optional Blizzard PPC SCSI controller? A: No, because there is no AmigaOS 4.1 support for the optional Blizzard PPC SCSI controller. 1.2 Q: Is it possible to boot the Installation CD directly from a SCSI CDROM attached to the Cyberstorm PPC SCSI controller? A: Yes, as long as your SCSI CDROM is properly setup on your SCSI chain and enabled in the setup menu of the Cyberstorm PPC, booting the Installation CD is possible directly from cold boot. Enter the Cyberstorm PPC Phase 5 Control Menu by holding down the “Esc” key when powering on your Amiga. Go into "SCSI", then click Unit number where you have SCSI CDROM connected. Ensure your SCSI CDROM unit is set to "8 LUNs" and change "Auto Mount" to "Mount" and "No CDRom Mount". The AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Installation CD uses its own RDB (Rigid Disk Block) and CDFS, not the Phase 5 Flashrom CDFS, that is why you must keep your SCSI CDROM unit defaulted to "No CDRom Mount". If you find the Installation CD is not booting directly try to soft-reset your Amiga and trying again. If it is still not booting from the Installation CD, check the "SCSI Reset Delay" setting in the Cyberstorm PPC menu. Go into “SCSI”, then “Controller” (by default in Unit 7), and increase the SCSI Reset Delay value as much as possible as older SCSI CDROMS can take more than 20 seconds to become ready after powering on your Amiga. For newer SCSI CDROMS (for example year 2002 production) values as low as 7 seconds have been tested to work well. If you still can’t get the Installation CD to boot directly, double check again your settings in the Cyberstorm menu, and verify you are seeing “BootCD” as a bootable device in the Amiga's early startup menu (hold down both mouse buttons at power-on). Finally, if it still doesn’t boot, use the Boot Floppy in conjunction with the Installation CD to Install AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. 1.3 Q: Is it possible to boot the Installation CD from a USB CDROM drive attached to a Deneb USB Controller? A: Yes, as long as the Poseidon USB stack is in the Deneb’s flashrom and is configured as follows: Ensure “Simple SCSI” is NOT enabled in the Trident prefs for the massstorage.class binding to your USB CDROM device. Also ensure that Poseidon Popups are set to never open a pop up window. This is very important as pop ups, if they occur, can cause the installation to hang. Remember that if you make changes to the Poseidon configuration in the Trident prefs you must re-flash your Deneb using the Luciferin software tool to ensure the changes are saved (into the Deneb Flashrom) and therefore available at cold boot. Note that Luciferin, if run under Amiga OS 4.0 or 4.1, needs to be added to the JIT Blacklist in Sys:Prefs/Compatibility otherwise you will get an error message when you try to flash your Deneb. Consult the Deneb, Poseidon, or Luciferin documentation for further information. Please note that this is not an officially supported method for Installation. Poseidon, Luciferin, and Deneb are 3rd party products copyrighted and/or trade marked by their respective owners. NOTE: This is not a recommended installation method as it does not always appear to be 100% reliable. 1.4 Q: Is it possible to create a new Boot Floppy? A: Yes, there is an ADF (Amiga Disk Format) file “BootFloppy.adf” in the root of the Installation CD. You can create the Boot Floppy using ADF2Disk. Download it from Aminet at http://aminet.net/disk/misc/adf2disk11.lha. It should work under AmigaOS 3.x or 4.x or on a Catweasel using an AmigaONE, SAM, or PC with UAE. There is also a file named GREXBootDisk.adf which will allow you to create the alternate Boot Disk if you have a GREX installed or you have a BlizzardVision PPC or CyberVision PPC graphics card AND the GREX firmware installed. More information here: http://www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/index.html 1.5 Q: My Floppy Drive is not visible after booting with the Installation CD so I can’t create a new Boot Floppy? A: In this case you need to use the already supplied Boot Floppy or create a new one using the procedure in the previous question. 1.6 Q: I booted with the Boot Floppy and Installation CD in the CDROM drive, however I am getting a requestor that says "Please insert volume AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition in any drive". A: There are two possibilities here: 1) Your CDROM drive has not been detected by the Boot Floppy. Refer to the "Booting the AmigaOS 4.1 Installation CD" section in the Installation Guide for troubleshooting tips. 2) Your CDROM drive needs more time to detect the Installation CD, so you can opt to "Retry". Check the Access LED on your CDROM drive to see if it's blinking. Have patience as it can take some time to access the CD. 1.7 Q: Accessing the Installation CD is very slow. A: Please be patient, there are thousands of files that need to be copied and some CDROM drives can take quite some time to access all the files. The Amiga's IDE port is operating at PIO Mode 0 due to Classic Amiga hardware limitations. 1.8 Q: My CyberVision PPC or BlizzardVision PPC graphics card is not being detected by the Installation CD. I am not getting any signal to my CyberVision or BlizzardVision PPC graphics card. Why?" A: You are probably running the latest version of the Blizzard PPC or Cyberstorm PPC firmware, the one that added support for OpenPCI and the GREX. If you see a “PCI” menu entry in the Cyberstorm or Blizzard PPC menu (press ESC at power-on to access the menu), then you are running the latest firmware.