FS-UAE CF HD not mounting.

[KhneFr]

Hi from reading several posts regarding mounting a CF card in FS-UAE, I have gathered the information to execute the task though when I boot the config, it takes me to boot screen not workbench. The CF card has an official copy of Workbench 3.1

I have checked in "diskutil list" and located the drive as "/dev/disk1"). Next I opened my A600 config file and added the line "hard_drive_0 = /dev/disk1", saved and restarted.

Once booting I was taken to the boot screen showing kickstart 3.1 that I added. When I boot FS-UAE without the CF card present, a notification occurs telling me /dev/disk1 cannot be found. So I know that it is looking for the drive!

Maybe the config file is too primitive?

[fs-uae]
amiga_model = A600
chip_memory = 2048
fast_memory = 8192
hard_drive_0 = /dev/disk1
kickstart_file = Amiga kick31.rom

[FrodeSolheim]

It could be a permission issue (have you checked that your user has read/write permission to /dev/disk1?).

Please provide the output from diskutil and also

ls -l /dev/disk1

(Additionally, log file is missing)

[KhneFr]

Files zipped here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/4e720ymuch...S-UAE.zip?dl=0

Hope they are of use.

[FrodeSolheim]

The output from ls -l (from your zip) shows that the disk is only read-writable for root. You need to change the permissions. For example:

chmod a+rw /dev/disk1

(Warning: gives all users read and write access)

[KhneFr]

After entering the above command in unix, the following message came up:

chmod: Unable to change file mode on /dev/disk1: Operation not permitted

[KhneFr]

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/disk1

This worked.

Thank you FS-UAE is great!

[KhneFr]

Hi again, I have successfully loaded both hard drives now under FS-UAE but now when I add a folder from my PC to the HD list using my Amiga Forever CF, Amiga DOS is promoted. This does not happen with my other CF HD and I am able to freely add folders.

Maybe this is not a FS-UAE issue but perhaps you have an idea how to fix this.

Log File

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by KhneFr

Amiga DOS is promoted

Do you mean that the AmigaDOS promt appears when booting (possibly because the added directory hard drive has higher boot priority)?

[KhneFr]

The PC folder has been mounted in the second slot below the CF like this:

disk1 (/dev)
Documents/Amiga 600

but still AmigaDOS promt appears. When the second folder is removed from the list, Workbench boots up without a problem.

I do not have this problem with the other workbench CF.

Both cards are also RW

brw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    1,   4 14 Jan 13:53 /dev/disk1

[FrodeSolheim]

My guess is that the AmigaOS partition on the CF has a low boot priority number. You can try lowering the boot priority of the Amiga 600 directory by adding hard_drive_1_priority to custom configuration.

You can even just disable booting from that hard drive (the directory) by using -128 as priority:

hard_drive_1_priority = -128

(hard_drive_0 is the first added drive, hard_drive_1 is the 2nd...)

[KhneFr]

This has worked, thank you again.

Encountered the same problem as KhneFr. Disabling booting fixed it. Thanks!