@Maijestro

I'm subscribed to your YouTube channel and I love what you do!

@Joerg

Thanks for the valuable information, especially with all the filesystem chaos you are probably the best contact person here and also confirms my experience with my X5000 Enhancer Software SFS 1.293.

Are older versions also supported? So you can also use older versions for booting?

@Skynet

With you there are now 4 users who would like to know how to configure everything under AmigaOs4.1 so that it looks similar to what I already use. I have to think about how to do it exactly and could publish a tutorial video on my YouTube channel. But be warned it might be a bit longer this time

@SteffJay

Meanwhile I use AmigaOs4.1 again natively on real hardware everything started with Qemu emulation at some point. I run a YouTube channel myself. As a newbie you probably have a lot of questions and only know a fraction of what is possible under AmigaOs4.1. Here I recommend you to visit my channel. I try to keep this channel as up to date as possible to let people know that AmigaOs4.1 is a really great operating system and it can be a really interesting hobby.

https://www.youtube.com/@Maijestro80

And if you have any questions, go ahead

@walkero
Quote:Booting requires support for the file system in 2 parts.

Firmware/SLB:
- SLB_v2 (AmigaOne SE/XE/µA1, Sam4x0) supports FFS and SFS, incl. SFS\2. Using back calls to U-Boot code some Linux (ext2fs?) file system as well for booting Linux.
- amigaboot.(ub|of) (X1000, X5000, A1222) supports FFS and SFS, incl. SFS\2, and AFAIK additionally NGF\0, but not NGF\1.
- SmartFirmware (Pegasos2) only supports FFS, not my versions of SFS (SFS\2 not at all, SFS\0 may or may not work, depending on if currently any of my improvements are in use on the partition, which can change on each reboot, i.e. it's random if booting works or not).
- SLB_v2 replacements like ACube's Parthenope (Sam4x0, no idea if it's usable with the very old U-Boot versions of the AmigaOne SE/XE/µA1 as well) only support FFS and Linux file systems, not my versions of SFS (SFS\2 not at all, SFS\0 only partially and randomly).
- On classic Amigas (A4000[T], A3000[T], A1200) the "Firmware/BIOS" for booting AmigaOS 4.x is AmigaOS 3.x, a compatible m68k AmigaOS 3.x version of the file system is required and has to be installed in the RDB. FFS and SFS are available, NGFS isn't.

AmigaOS 4.x:
Both my diskboot in old versions (Hyperion is no longer allowed to use it), and the replacement mounter.library in current versions, should work with any AmigaOS file system which is installed as a kickstart module.
Using disk based file systems (in L:) obviously can't be used for booting.

@SteffJayQuote:

I get this from time to time as well, but a reboot solves it.

@Maijestro

Hi Maestro,

I would also be interested in your presentation of the tools and icon packages you use, and also the installation.

Thanks, see you soon

@SteffJay
On that HDD you boot from with the weird mouse behavior, do you have
- "USBCtrl START" in your S:startup-sequence
- A hid.usbfd file in DEVS:usb/fd
- A hid.fdclass file in DEVS:USB/fdclasses

Otherwise you're running with a simplistic USB mouse driver using what is known as the boot-protocol (a simplistic data interface) for communicating with the USB mouse.
The HID driver (which is disk-based and triggered when the USB stack gets fully booted with "USBCtrl START" if it is available on disk) is much more sophisticated.

If your mouse does not play nice with the boot-protocol and the HID driver is not running you might see something like what you have with mouse not operating as expected.

Just a thought - might not be the culprit at all, though :)

@SteffJay


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Thanks buddy. I pay a lot of attention to the look of my workbench and the great thing is that you can configure almost everything yourself under AmigaOs4.1 and make it look really modern.

Maybe I will come back to this later and present all the tools and icon packages I use including installation.

Quote:

This problem sounds familiar to me. Are you by any chance using a wireless mouse that is not wired?

@Maijestro

Wow !! That is a really nice setup you have there.

Being a noob, i really do not know what to set my HDD to.

There are strange things going on when i boot from HDD. The mouse sticks to the top left hand side and i cannot move the mouse anywhere except up or down but it takes the Workbench screen with it.
See Dropbox link -> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nd5y3ml ... bumpwq54&st=y81h4rvy&dl=0

I will try reformatting the HDD in SFS/00 and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply.

@walkero

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This is not quite correct, at least with SFS V1.293 my X5000 also boots SFS/02 formatted partitions.



I just noticed that Media Toolbox lists 2 devices: “vsata.device” and “p50x0sata.device” are both needed here?

@SteffJay

Have you also identified your boot partition as a bootbar in the MediaToolbox? Have a look at my screenshot.

I believe the SFS/02 cannot be used to boot from. Either use FFS or SFS/00

@mcleppa

A game worth playing, my latest:
Grabbing the skulls give you a lot of points, but can remove a lot of lives if unlucky :)

Hmm, 2 things I would check :

Make sure uboot is configured to boot from the device it's loading the configuration from
Make sure the USB has SFS added to the kick layout.

Aaaand the reply with accusations of delusions seals the deal. All the proof needed.

It's fascinating how a simple offer of help can be interpreted in so many different ways... especially when one doesn't know the motivations or the facts. My suggestion was just to offer a potential solution for Stella.

@hotrod
I'll leave you to your narc delusions.

@davebraco

Narc. The avatar to start with. It's like some joke to them.

Also, talk about something that is OT, didn't ask about RetroArch.

Also talk about that because of narc-reasons.

And offcourse they always have more Amiga-systems than the regular Amiga-user. Because then they win and everyone will automatically believe anything they say is how the think. More is better to them.

@davebraco

I think that not everyone wants or needs the whole package of retroarch for one
or two emulators.

@all

Here's some reading for the silly season. Enjoy!

@MigthyMax

Hi Mighty Max,
I'd love to download it, but I can't see the download link.

@trixie

Thanks, Trixie! I'm happy you enjoy the monthly roundups!

Looking forward to your next post on Monday!