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[machinehead]

I have an A1200 with all the bells and whistles.
When it boots, it hangs and will not display on the Voodoo card.
Switching to the FlickerFixer output I see the message "Software failure 80000008"
So I boot with the emergency disk and 3.9 in the CD. NOTFALL starts and recognizes my 060 and memory.
Here is the wierd part.
After looking at this screen for a few seconds, I remove the floppy and the CD and press the reset button.
The machine procedes to start normally and now I can hook the monitor back up to the Voodoo output and everything is fine.
What's up with this? :-?

[RexxMast]

Sounds like a software problem to me. it is possible that something has become corrupted or is missing from your sys partition. When you boot off of the floppy and CD the file in question is more than likely being loaded into memory, thus it survives the warm reboot that you are doing.

After you boot up the next time you might try copying your current system to another partition or make a drawer and copy it into it you only have one partition, and reinstall your system over what you now have. If this straightens everything out great, if not you can always boot from the floppy and CD again and copy you sys back over as it was. If it does work you can compare the two systems and copy back newer llibs, etc.

If this doesn't work keep the copy of your sys and try new install. If this works you can do the same thing by copying back over newer libs, etc. a few at a time to see if you encounter a problem. If you do, you should be able to figure out what is causing it.

This is what I would do myself if this continued, and thankfully reinstalling the AmigaOS is a breeze compared to any other that I have ever seen.

regards,

[Elwood]

Boot with no startup-sequence, then execute each line of your s-s until something is wrong. Then you have find the wrong line....

[machinehead]

How do I boot without startup-sequence?

[Rob]

Hold down both mouse buttons while resetting the A1200 to access the
early startup menu. Select boot with no startup sequence a shell
window should boot from your hard drive.

[Rob]

Usually you can run your startup-sequence by typing "exexute
startup-sequence" but as far as I know there is no way of running it
step by step. For that you will have to open a new shell
window "newshell" then type "ed s/startup-sequence" to display your
startup sequence. Now you'll have to re-type your startup sequence
line by line in the other shell window..
Things might be a bit cramped but as you've got 3.9 and presumably the
latest boing bag you should be able to select high res from the
display options in the early startup menu first.

[machinehead]

Well, I got to the early startup screen and selected Boot without startup-sequence. Still won't boot.

I failed to mention that I have recently installed a 40GB HD 7200 rpm.
I also have installed ATA3 with the new HD controller Flyer Gold.
If I am booting without startup and it still won't boot, could it be the controller?