Strange error

[Reynolds]

Recently I bought a PPC card again for my A1200. Wanted to install not only OS4, but OS3.x as well, but failed, although I tried many different ways.

1. Had an old archived PPCSys used way back in 1998-2000 when had the first PPC card. It doesn't work properly, crashes while boots up.

2. Tried AmigaSYS4, but also failed, if system starts, many commodities/apps freezes, no serious apps can be used.

3. Tried AmigaSYS3+ as well, same result. random crashes, guru meditation, etc.

When my third try failed I decided to dig into the whole thing more seriously, but have not so much time, so...

BTW, both AmigaSYS can boot only if I replace the Setpatch from it with the original from WB3.0.

System halts in different forms randomly, sometimes totally freezes. not just with the typical Suspend/Reboot requester.
Newer setpatch I can use only if the machine has boot without Startup Sequence. With the same the system only freezes normally. no Blizkick, OxyPatcher etc. before the Setpatch.

Any ideas?

thx,

Reynolds

[thomas]

Make sure you install the appropiate processor drivers. And use the latest version of SetPatch only.

If your PPC card has a 68060, you need to replace 68040.library by the dummy version which is only ~80 bytes and you need 68060.library which is ~100 KB. If your PPC card has a 68040, you need to replace 68040.library by the new version which is ~80 KB.

Get the system disk which contains the libs here: http://powerup.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=13

To use the PPC you also have to install the PPC drivers. Do not use the ones on the system disk but rather install WarpUP and PPCLibEmu.

Also a flash ROM update is a good idea. Using new libs with an old ROM or vice versa might lead to crashes, too.