I got my Pegasos today (April 1).

All went smoothly -- except for one thing.

It has intermittant problems with booting. Sometimes it boots, sometimes it stops at the MorphOS logo. (Although it boots 100% of the time from CD).

Don't have any other partitions set up yet, so I don't think it's a boot priority issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[ Edited by klesterjr on 2005/6/25 8:39 ]

Do you have a USB pen drive or anything like that plugged in?

Nothing at all.

Hmmmm . . .

Seems to stop at the MorphOS startup screen ALL the time now (except when booting from CD).

Did you use a FFS partition for the boot.img? It must be a FFS
partition. Best way it to create a 50MB partition or less even, I like
50 because it gives me room to add any linux or other boot images in
it if i need to. Call this boot or something. If you dont have the
manual for the Pegasos let me know. I akso recomend using the install
guide at pegasos.org I think.

klesterjr

Congrats and welcome to the community. Here is a couple of ideas:

1. Are you using 80wire flat good quality ide cables?

2. try to put the cdrom as master on secondary and drive as master on primary

3. does your RAM pass the Memtest in C: ??

magnetic

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That's what I used -- and it went very well -- except that it wouldn't boot reliably (actually, not at all after a while).

I changed my DH0: to FFS & added a DH1: (also FFS) and reinstalled -- now it seems to be working fine.

That doesn't seem like a likely reason for the booting problem, though. I wonder if there was a problem with the install the first couple of times?

All I know is the partition that has the boot.img must be FFS or you get messed up boots. If you had it on the same partition as the rest of the system that was it.

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It was on a 50 meg FFS partition all by itself (I followed the directions very closely) .

After talking with you tonight -- I'm pretty sure that it was just a "borked" install caused either by not using an 80 wire IDE cable on my CDROM (Heh, heh -- I only had ONE!) or by my ancient 4x CDROM.

I think I just got lucky that the install on the FFS partition went well.

I'll scare up another 80 pin cable & a proper CDROM tomorrow and try again!

> After talking with you tonight -- I'm pretty sure that it was just a "borked"
> install caused either by not using an 80 wire IDE cable on my CDROM (Heh,
> heh -- I only had ONE!) or by my ancient 4x CDROM.

80 wire cable is not so important for CDROM. Especially when CDROM is slow (like
in your case). The 80 wire cables are required for most hard disks (IIRC for all
which work in UDMA mode).

Maybe you were moving mouse at one point ?

@klesterjr

Are you using the latest MorphOS (1.4.5)? If so, on my Pegasos II I had the same problem with MorphOS 1.4.5, MorphOS wouldn't boot. But after putting wait 1 before Iprefs in my startup-sequence the problem was solved. I don't know if this also works on Pegasos I.

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I came across a thread about that -- sounded exactly like my problem. I've decided to stick with FFS (since it's working).

This morning I changed the icons (to my own of course! ), and generally just "poked" around!

A couple of observations . . .

1) This puppy boots fast!

2) The display updates/icon handling speed is unreal -- beats WinUAE/Amithlon by a ton!

3) The 'ShutDown' menu item doesn't have an option to SHUT DOWN!

4) The icon scaling is REALLY cool!

A couple of questions . . .

1) Is there a way to turn off "auto positioning" of icons?

2) If I'm stuck with "auto positioning" -- can I change the icon spacing? The icons are too far apart from each other!

3) Is there a way to "update" the Workbench after changing things (other than rebooting)?

4) How do I get a higher display resolution? I've got a VooDoo 3 3000 with 16 megs, but I can't go over 800x600 (The refresh rate also seems really low).

5) Is there a MorphOS manual somewhere!

[ Edited by klesterjr on 2005/6/25 8:41 ]

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Probably not in the public releases of the new Ambient. Of course that might change later.

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Check System Settings / Mode Edit.
I think there are some guides on creating screenmodes somewhere

Ken go into ambient settings and look under icons. There are a few things I think you are looking for in there.