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@3VILC

Are you using an RX card?
That wont work unless the the drivers are installed and noted on the kickstart.

So if you are using the original AOS4.1 CD, you will only have drivers for the HD cards.

Cheers

@3VILC
Maybe to simplify things with drivers first you could just remove the graphics card and use the internal on-board sm502 graphics for setup first which should work, then add the graphics card once you have a working system after installing Enhancer for the drivers.
Are you using the right AmigaOS version for you machine? Other versions for sam440 or similiar might read kickstart files but won't boot, only the sam460 version has the right kernel and drivers. If you need a working AmigaOS system to add drivers or format usb drive or similar you could try booting AmigaOS on QEMU, it should work with -machine sam460ex but AmigaOS should boot even with the old U-Boot version.
Since the old U-Boot version has problems reading USB drives maybe you'd need to write the updater to an iso or a hard disk partition that it can read.
There's some documentation in the U-Boot update that tells you how to find out the right version:
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But not sure if the CLK freq is shown in the older U-Boot but probably can also be found from the info printed to serial which is something like:
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and maybe it could be guessed somehow from the frequencies reported in this line. Or you could try bdinfo command in U-Boot which prints some freqs too.

Thanks for that balloon. This is with or without the graphics card installed. Managed to get QEMU working, of course the same cd image boots straight up on there, typical. So will try making a bootable USB manually from there.
Bdinfo just (unsurprisingly) gives the same output as is available from the menus. Intfreq = 1166, busfreq = 233. I can't for the life of me fathom how that relates to the 50/55/60mhz versions of the UBoot file, as to me that would have to be a 66mhz base clock so I guess I use the file for 60 :shrug:

@3VILC

You have one of the few early Sam460ex boards with a base clock of 66 MHz, which at the time were mostly given to developers.
Unfortunately, the 60 MHz version of the u-boot installer will not work on your board, you need a custom installer version.

In addition, the SATA 3112 controller is unstable when used on the Sam460ex, so we recommend the 3512 or 3114 models, or, after updating to the latest version of u-boot, the 3132.

PS: Since you are updating from such an old version of u-boot, you may need to update to an intermediate version first, and only then install the latest version.