I want to upgrade to mos 1.4.5 I boot with the cd, and it appears to work fine,but instructions say to use boot /pci/ide/cd boot.img but that doesnt work, comes up with an error.show-devs doesnt show a cd either? Yet the cdrom works fine with my current mos 1.4 setup.Since the bootable cd always boots,how do I make sure that I have the right boot.img to upgrade? I dont want to foul up peg2.

Try /pci/ide/cdrom boot.img instead. If even that won't help, use the cd and dir commands to find out how it's called

HI Ok I tried cdrom , no go , get error while trying to boot,An info command gives me a volume of CD0: Another thing is I cant eben use the boot /pci/ide/disk@0,0 boot.img to work either, always get error while trying to boot,yet just boot works..IF a bootable cd is in drive it boots off cd, just cantr get that boot command to work..I have firmware 1.1 IS that the latest?

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It's the latest publicly downloadable one, and you should stick to that for now...

Anyway, with OFW1.1 it should be enough to type "boot cd boot.img", if that doesn't work, browse the /pci/ide tree with the ls command...


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Ok I found one problem, I had the cdrom as slave on 1de1, chnged to master and now cdrom shows upi n the devs list :) However the boot cd commands ( I tried all variations) still does not boot cd.:( It looks like it will start,but the cdrom is never accessed (no green led) Hmmm, now what??

have u checked your drive's jumpers?
try with another drive.

OK I switched to a new cdrw drive and now I can boot from the CD by typing boot cd boot.img! YES! :) But .. theres always a but...after installing 1.4.5 from cd , it boots with everything the same, old Ambient 1.2 not newer vers?
WHat files should I have on boot FFS: ? just boot.img?

Firmware 1.1 should support booting from a sfs partition.

Old scheme to partition your hd:

One very small partition which holds only the boot.img. On old maschines this partition must use ffs, on more current firmwares sfs will do the job, too (use sfs when supported by the firmware).
For clarity reasons do not automount that partition, so you cannot mess around with it by mistake (it doesn't need to be accessible from MOS, only from the fw).
You can run the system without a dedicated partition for the boot.img and put it into sys: directly, but it's not recomended and sys: must use a filesystem supported by the fw then.

One partition for system. Holds your system files except the boot.img. Should use sfs, some prefer pfs.

n partions for the rest of your hd. sfs or pfs suggested.

Ok I reinstalled everything to my boot drive and now things work
somewhat better :) I would like to thank everyone here who got me
going again. :)
Cheers!!