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Re: Emergency Boot Partition

Posted on: 5/9 21:37 #1

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@emeck

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So the command for Mirror should be like this?

Mirror FROM System: TO SysBack: ALL UPDATE VERBOSE

Without having tested this exact line - yes, it looks right to me.

The VERBOSE switch is of course a matter of taste, I normally use QUIET.

And the UPDATE switch is of course not necessary to create the initial copy, where the destination is empty.

Best regards,

Niels

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Re: Emergency Boot Partition

Posted on: 5/9 21:29 #2

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@emeck

Quote:

Thanks for the tip. One problem I see with Mirror is that it replaces the Kicklayout file with the one in DH0 and deletes the BootDevice file in DH1.

I'll add a reminder for that in my "cheat sheet" for creating/updating my Emergency Boot Partition.

True, these are (practically) unavoidable as far as I can see, good idea to keep a list of things to do after cloning.

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I see some things in Env-Archive also use DHO, but I suppose those are harmless, right?

Not necessarily, that depends on what they are. But e.g. your prefs files are also stored in ENVARC: (in the Sys subdir), and we already dealt with them (or some of them) above.

In general, if you have anything in ENVARC: containing the device name or volume name of your first boot partition, I'd change them to SYS: - that makes it unnecessary to include them on your cheat list.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Emergency Boot Partition

Posted on: 5/8 22:41 #3

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@smarkusg

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It is not recommended to install the entire ES2 package after updating to UP3. It will overwrite important system files in the “other” versions.

If you ask me, it is not recommended to install the entire ES package at all. I'd always only install the bits you really need/want. For me, that's normally just the RadeonHD/RX stuff (depending on the card I have in that machine) plus MultiViewer/MultiEdit and a few other utilities which I have tested and find useful and well-behaved. Certainly not any commands or preferences, as they overwrite the system versions with less well-tested versions which have in several cases been found to make trouble.

Unfortunately, to achieve this, you have to un-check, one by one, a lot of checkboxes in the installer, so only the section(s)/bit(s) you want are checked. It would have been easier if there were a function to "deselect all" in the installer, but unfortunately not.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Emergency Boot Partition

Posted on: 5/8 21:21 #4

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@emeck

When creating the copy from your newly installed Update 3 partition to the Emergency backup, I'd recommend using the new Mirror command from Update 3 instead of a simple Copy. It will among other niceties preserve the links correctly, for instance in your SObjs dir.

Another thing you might want to check is whether you have any explicit references to your first partition (volume name or device name) in any saved prefs (e.g. WBPattern used to have this problem) or in your AmiUpdate prefs setup or places like WBStartup or AmiDock. You probably want those to refer to SYS: instead, so they correctly point to your new partition when you have booted that, and vice versa.

There may be other similar cases I forgot to mention, but you get the idea, I hope.

BTW, Mirror can also be useful if you have installed new stuff on your SYS:, tested and made sure you can still boot, and you then want your emergency copy freshened to have the same updates.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X1000 CFE Patches: Testers Welcome (Fear not: real-time, no reflashing) v.02 NEW!

Posted on: 4/29 21:19 #5

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@kas1e

Quote:

Probably even boot flag doesn't matter for amigaboot.of

I believe that depends on whether you have set the NV variable "bootable_only" (to y, Y, or 1) or not.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X1000 CFE Patches: Testers Welcome (Fear not: real-time, no reflashing) v.01

Posted on: 4/11 21:38 #6

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@K-L

Quote:

@NBache

Where do you type these lines?

Quote:
SPEED=set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=1800; set pmu -astate=a4
SPEED2=set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=2000; set pmu -astate=a4
STARTUP=SPEED2; menu

I don't. These lines are the listing of the already set env variables (listed with "printenv" in the CFE command line).

To set them, you must use e.g.:

setenv -p SPEED 'set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=1800; set pmu -astate=a4'

and similar for the other two. (The "-p" means save the variable permanently, if you omit the "-p", you will just set the variable temporarily, e.g. if you want to test it, then it reverts to the previously saved value when you restart.)

BTW, I use a Radeon HD card, so I can do everyting locally in the CFE prompt and don't need to go via the serial link.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: x1000 onboard network opensource driver in progress: new version

Posted on: 4/11 15:05 #7

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@kas1e

Just wanted to report that I have nothing to report

I've been using your new pa6t_eth on my X1000 24/7 since I installed it, I believe on the 27th of March. I did reboot a few times during that period, but for other reasons, I have seen no problems that looked like they were caused by the Ethernet driver. Right now my uptime is 1 day and almost 17 hours.

I've been browsing, downloading all sizes of files, uploading stuff to my LAN drive and web server and in short done all my normal activities.

So good job, one more limitation blown away from the X1000.

Best regards,

Niels

Edited by nbache on 2026/4/11 17:48:31

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nbache

Re: X1000 CFE Patches: Testers Welcome (Fear not: real-time, no reflashing) v.01

Posted on: 4/6 20:51 #8

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@pvanni
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I tried to set speed1 like you, extra1, extra2, extra3 with the three patches than I set STARTUP=extra1 ; extra2 ; extra3 ; speed1 ; menu
but in this way something very strange happen, only the first one and the menu are executed
so to have at least the sata, speed and menu executed i had to set STARTUP with explicit commands.

Did you enter the setenv command with the whole value string enclosed in quotes? Otherwise I'd imagine it would stop when it reached the first semicolon.

Hmm, but if you say that the menu command was also executed, maybe I'm guessing wrong.

I'm not using the other patches myself (yet), just the speed "hack".

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X1000 CFE Patches: Testers Welcome (Fear not: real-time, no reflashing) v.01

Posted on: 4/5 22:02 #9

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@kas1e (and @all)

Quote:

In other words there maybe worth to patch to have 5 and 6 be 1900 and 2000 or something, just to avoid typing it all manually, but for while being it all can be added right in STARTUP, like:

set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=2000; set pmu -astate=a4; menu

Just wanted to share what I did to be able to use this and still be able to switch back to 1800 MHz easily (sometimes when testing I want to make sure some result is the same under both frequencies).

I set up the SPEED variable like above, except with 1800 as speed and then a second one I call SPEED2 with the 2000 like above. Then I can just change the STARTUP var to refer either to SPEED or to SPEED2, which is much shorter to type in at the CFE prompt.

Like so:


SPEED=set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=1800; set pmu -astate=a4

SPEED2=set pmu -astate=a0; set astate 4 -speed=2000; set pmu -astate=a4

STARTUP=SPEED2; menu

BTW, the names of the CFE vars seem to be case-sensitive, so if you define the variable as speed, you might have both a speed and a SPEED var. If necessary, remove one of them with e.g. "unsetvar speed".

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: My AmigaOs4.1 projects

Posted on: 3/28 22:28 #10

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@Maijestro

Is is possible that you have multi-assigned SOBJS: to somewhere else in addition to SYS:Sobjs - and that libstdc++.so is present there?

Just an idea.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Videovortex

Posted on: 3/23 22:40 #11

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@Gregor

You could probably just run ffmpeg once from that path, or even just do a "version VideoVortex/Data/FFmpeg/Generic/ffmeg". Once the executable is referenced like that, the system creates the APPDIR: entry.

I guess that is what TearsOfMe will do from the next installer version.

(Note: I don't have the VideoVortex program installed myself, I'm only guessing based on the above facts and my knowledge of AmigaOS.)

Best regards,

Niels

Edited by nbache on 2026/3/25 21:47:51

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nbache

Re: x1000 onboard network opensource driver in progress

Posted on: 3/17 22:17 #12

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@kas1e

I remember something similar, not sure when and where it was discussed (but loooong ago).

However when I check my X1000 with Ranger, it reports a MAC address of C4:3D: ..., i.e. different from yours.

So either it was solved at some point, or it was never all X1000 machines?

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: x1000 onboard network opensource driver in progress

Posted on: 3/12 21:40 #13

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@kas1e

Quote:

Replaced with new CR20232 (and x1000 was about 20-30 seconds off the battery and didn't loose settings), and sadly to say but "i need to hit 2 times restart button to make NIC works" and "sometime not have even boot log and need to reset" still there.

Did you measure the voltage of the new battery? I've heard several people say that even if they took a new battery directly from a non-expired pack, it could measure below the full voltage.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Introducing the Rear Window blog

Posted on: 3/11 21:56 #14

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@jabirulo

Yeah, that's what I thought you meant. So no, I couldn't reproduce that either.

So maybe it is/was specific for Sam460? Since we are in the murky waters of timing issues, that wouldn't be completely impossible, as it has yet another speed than the X1000 and X5000 which we tested on so far.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: Introducing the Rear Window blog

Posted on: 3/10 22:29 #15

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@jabirulo

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When clicking (click or click and drag) on right side border of waveform preview/gadget the apps crashes/freezes system.

I tried to reproduce it, but couldn't. But I'm not sure I understand exactly where you click/drag. Can you show it in a screen grab or something?

Also, that is on a Sam460, IIRC?

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: x1000 onboard network opensource driver in progress

Posted on: 3/10 0:25 #16

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@kas1e

I have to mention this: You did check your cell battery, right?

Sorry if of course you already checked this, but so often problems similar to yours are caused by a slightly (or more) worn out battery.

BTW, my X1000 also does not show this problem, although it is connected to a switch, not directly to the router, but that's probably not relevant.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: My AmigaOs4.1 projects

Posted on: 3/8 22:15 #17

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@Maijestro

Quote:

AmigaOS4 SDK 54.16 (August 2022)

If you had installed update 3, which was released last October, you should have had SDK 54.17.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X5000 Uboot variable for displaying different boot partitions

Posted on: 2/21 22:51 #18

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@LyleHaze

I believe 54.15 is the latest there is, yes.

If by disk formats you mean filesystems, then I know that at least FFS, SFS, and NGFS are supported; the latter probably only officially on X5000, though. Maybe others, but Tony would be the oracle on this. You might have more luck asking things like this over on Hyperion's forum.

As for SFS, you may need the newer versions which came with Enhancer.

Documentation - I believe I saw something at some point, but I'm not sure if it was finished and released yet. Again, someone over at the Hyperion forum might know.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X5000 Uboot variable for displaying different boot partitions

Posted on: 2/16 23:02 #19

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@johnfante

Great that we succeded in finding it!

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache

Re: X5000 Uboot variable for displaying different boot partitions

Posted on: 2/15 1:05 #20

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@LyleHaze

Okay, so this is on X1000. Above we were discussing X5000.

But on my X1000, I have this:

MENU_1_COMMAND=boot -fs=amigafs ide0.0:amigaboot.of

This does show me the selection list of volumes to boot from (created by AmigaBoot).

I don't use the "setenv os4_bootdevice auto" bit on my X1000, because there I have one big Kicklayout file with multiple configs, each corresponding to its own subdir in the Kickstart dir, and with a BootDevice module in each config to tell it from which volume to boot WB.

So essentially I have the same as yours, and it works here.

Best regards,

Niels

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