Delaying workbench startup for a few seconds?

utukku · 20 December 2020, 17:21

Hi,
is there anything that I can write into the startup sequence that would delay the startup of workbench?

I have this slightly annoying problem on my A4000D that has a buddah and ZZ9000 installed, where on cold boot, it fails to recognise both cards, so WB doesn't load correctly. However, if I then do a soft reset, everything is recognised and loads correctly.

Cheers

Utukku

PeterK · 20 December 2020, 17:37

You could insert a "wait 1" or "wait 2" after the loading of the monitor drivers and before IPrefs or you could try "LoadWB Delay".

thomas · 20 December 2020, 18:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by utukku

I have this slightly annoying problem on my A4000D that has a buddah and ZZ9000 installed, where on cold boot, it fails to recognise both cards, so WB doesn't load correctly. However, if I then do a soft reset, everything is recognised and loads correctly.

Zorro card recognition is not done by Workbench. It's done by expansion.library before startup-sequence even starts. A delay in startup-sequence changes nothing.

A better workaround would be to check if the cards are present and if not delay a second and reboot. I don't know if a program exists which checks for Zorro card presence. But if not it would be easy to write one.

PeterK · 20 December 2020, 19:14

Ok, I don't have any Amiga hardware anymore, but how can it start booting and loading a startup-sequence already from the HDD if the Buddha is not ready and recognized by expansion.library?

robinsonb5 · 20 December 2020, 19:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterK

Ok, I don't have any Amiga hardware anymore, but how can it start booting and loading a startup-sequence already from the HDD if the Buddha is not ready and recognized by expansion.library?

Maybe it's booting from the Buddha but coming up in the wrong screenmode because the ZZ9000's not initialised? Or maybe there's a boot drive on the internal IDE and other drives on the Buddha?

utukku · 20 December 2020, 21:44

Hi, at the moment I have the CF boot card connected to the onboard IDE port, and a cd-rom drive on on the buddah. So it's not booting from the buddah first.

20 December 2020, 17:21	#1
utukku Registered User Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: UK Posts: 81	Delaying workbench startup for a few seconds? Hi, is there anything that I can write into the startup sequence that would delay the startup of workbench? I have this slightly annoying problem on my A4000D that has a buddah and ZZ9000 installed, where on cold boot, it fails to recognise both cards, so WB doesn't load correctly. However, if I then do a soft reset, everything is recognised and loads correctly. Cheers Utukku

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20 December 2020, 17:37	#2
PeterK Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hangover Posts: 2,878	You could insert a "wait 1" or "wait 2" after the loading of the monitor drivers and before IPrefs or you could try "LoadWB Delay".

20 December 2020, 19:14	#4
PeterK Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hangover Posts: 2,878	Ok, I don't have any Amiga hardware anymore, but how can it start booting and loading a startup-sequence already from the HDD if the Buddha is not ready and recognized by expansion.library?

20 December 2020, 21:44	#6
utukku Registered User Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: UK Posts: 81	Hi, at the moment I have the CF boot card connected to the onboard IDE port, and a cd-rom drive on on the buddah. So it's not booting from the buddah first.

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