Michael Schulz writes on his blog:

"Download this torrent, and test the AROS for efika yourself. It is not complete yet. You will surely see it crashing. The both IDE and network drivers are missnig. The release is unstable. Just put the ISO on CD, put it into your USB-CD or USB-DVD drive and start efika. Then, type following commands in the OF prompt:

setenv boot-device cd
boot cd os_image

Once you see the Boot? > prompt, press 1 and be patient. The OF needs some time to read all aros' modules and will put enourmous amount of debug info. It will even report some missing file. Once AROS starts up, you will see the mouse pointer on the screen and CD drive working. Have fun. The serial port outputs debug information at 115200bps, 8N1.

PS. My upstream is limited. Please seed the file after download."

got a page load error!
nevermind...Iwas using firefox3 on macmini.
Swithched to sputnik on efika and it came in







reposted with sputnik


[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/1/27 18:21 ]

OF stops after booting aros live cd at
1. AROS for Efika 5200
2. AROS for Efika Test 2

nevermind again had the split screen going
and didn't see the prompt and pressed 1 too late

crazy boot sequence...now it stopped at

Dev/ssfs.handleriso-9660 filesystem: system-id: "aros-ppc-chrp" volume-id

Root dir: " " flags=0x2 extent=0x31 size=01800

tried 3 times...no luck on this one



[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/1/28 2:00 ]

There is an update available. Visit the link below for details.

http://msaros.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-efika-iso.html

2nd version of the iso is still not working for me

i get failed to load menu file from usb stick

and the cd rom stops at ff95766c

also had probs writing the iso on osx

had to mount iso and copy files to burn folder then write the disk

Seems like booting from usb stick is still impossible. As to the CD booting - you can't use HUB, you have to plug the USB->IDE adapter directly to Efika's USB port. These issuses will probably be addressed in the next release, Michal is working hard on them :)

no go again. it stops booting somewhere during
devs sequence.

My hub's on efika usb 1
and usb/ide is single on efika usb 2
it is set and only works right set as slave!

but doesnt power up power down constantly like if i set it to master as GEIT said to do

so that's not why.....

My hub's on efika usb 1
and usb/ide is all on its longsome on efika usb 2

the cd it is set and only works right set as slave!

but doesnt power up power down constantly like if i set it to master as GEIT said to do

so it is set by itself, so that's not why.....

It stops for me at FF95766C

looking forward to the next upload, thanks Michal.

is there a way to maybe boot it from a partition. I dropped the iso into hd:2, but is there a OF command which may get it?
I tried boot boot hd:2 load os_image

it didn't go.

Tried to boot it from a CF card in a cardreader (had no USB sticks or CD at hand) but no go. OF/SLB loads the files, then it stops booting. Haven't tried to hook it up on serial yet tho', to see what's wrong...

Booting from onboard IDE, flashdisk, or through the USB hub is not supported yet. The hub issue will probably be fixed in the next release.

Only way to boot right now is USB-IDE adapter connected to one of Efika's USB ports, with CD attached to it on the other end. This works for me, I booted AROS from CD several times already.

A new version has been released which is said to allow to boot AROS from USB flash drives.

Download via torrent

A new version has been released which is said to allow to boot AROS from USB flash drives.

Download via torrent



i thought this was the first release........

If anybody runs into problems, please comment on the developer's personal blog to make sure that he is aware of your experiences. He is looking for testers who are willing to send him detailed bug reports and debug logs.

http://msaros.blogspot.com

The new version is really worth checking out!

It finally boots from USB-Flashdisk (has to be formatted as SFS-RDB, though; there's still no full support for FAT-formatted ones).

Booting time is still impressive on Efika's slow USB 1.1, but check it out for yourselves...

And oh, write some feedback to the author, it's important! :)

Dumb question I am sure...sorry, but:

Does AROS on the EFIKA run Amiga 68K binaries?

Thanks
John

> Does AROS on the EFIKA run Amiga 68K binaries?

No, not in the sense MorphOS or OS4 run them. Else check out Janus-UAE project, which should also run on AROS for Efika once ready, albeit rather slow due to missing JIT.

Michal Schulz has released another test version of AROS for EFIKA which now includes the ability to install AROS to a harddisk. Booting via USB is no longer a requirement.

The developer kindly asks for feedback from the EFIKA community who are willing to give it a try. Please post your comments to the developer's blog: http://msaros.blogspot.com/

Download AROS for EFIKA: Torrent

Can I install it on my HD without messing up my MorphOS 2.x installation ?

Another release: LINK