It would be so nice if one day we all get one new Amiga OS 4.1 MASTER that has all the original and updates that is part of the new Installer so one does not have to piece-meal all of this.
That is a nice dream to have.
Seems wonky after all this time we have to go back to Square One to build things back up to a updated form that we can then build back onto.
Use any of the USB ports on your motherboard, not a USB port on the case. Any of them should work as long as your keyboard is one that works.
My experience as I noted before is the X5K is picky on keyboards that worked for getting one into early boot. Even if the keyboard is one that came with your X5K does not guarantee it was tested for early boot either.
Once that boing ball at boot starts to spin and do the animation, try ESC key and even Space Bar.
I had one keyboard that worked on ESC key while another using my Space Bar.
If that fails on all of the motherboard usb ports, your keyboard may not be one that it likes for early boot access.
Just my tips as I only found a couple keyboards that worked for me over the years owning an X5K.
I had a issue like this when I started playing with early boot and trying to get AmigaOS and MorphOS installed and dual booting. It seems after shutting off the system it kept trying to and wanting that USB Stick that had MorphOS on it connected to boot. Without it it refused.
Trial and error I finally had it allowing me into early boot again and selecting the Amiga OS button to boot from and then all went back to normal.
Wonder if it saw a USB stick with an OS on it and want's that back or else.
Just an idea is all.
How about doing a USB Reset in command line from the early boot screen? Pretty sure I did a number of those when I started having an issue like this.
TJ
*as a side note, in my dual boot X5K, the system remembers what OS it last booted to so if that was MorphOS, I don't need to get to early boot again unless I want to go back to Amiga OS to select it. So to me it seems to me it no longer sees a USB stick it wants to try and boot from and is refusing until it sees it again.
Would any of this usbctrl make or break early boot access on some keyboards? I have some keyboards that refuse to get into early boot while others work fine.
This is really neat. I am only really a Next Gen Amigan BUT if this device lets me buy some of these Homebrew Amiga games that come out on floppy and play them, I may have to buy one of these!
I am starting to play some ADF and older games these days on my X5K.
When you mention author to get the current version, are you meaning Hyperion?
I purchased my X5K back in 2016 and have done all the updates to date, but unsure what version I used to last partition my drive. I know I did a reinstall of all couple years ago but may have been the 2016 version is my guess.
I need to look but who do we reach out to to get the current NTFS if we are current X5K and Amiga OS 4.1 licensed owners?
Ah funny, I own zTools. I need to go grab that again. I did an reinstall a number of years ago and forgot I owned it. Hopefully Amistore remembers. haha