booting from cd

amifreak · 17 November 2004, 16:55

help i have a problem i have an amiga 1200 with O.S 3.5 SCSI SURF SQUIRREL AND TOSHIBA CD-ROM drive 81 mb hd system works fine but i cannot boot direcly from a cd on startup it always loads the workbench first but i would like to be able to autoboot from cd i know theres a way to do this by modifiring the startup-sequence or user-startup but i do not know what to change since im not good at this sort of thing does can someone please help the jumper on the cd drive is set to 2 by the way thanks

RetroMan · 18 November 2004, 23:59

WHAT exactly do you want to boot from CD ???

The Amiga needs to load a CDFileSystem first, before you can access the CDRom .... so booting from CD is not possible .... Anyway, there is a CD32 Emulator for the Amiga (Aminet ?) that can boot a CD32 Software CD by putting the CDFS Driver in Ram ...

lloyd · 19 November 2004, 00:10

I assume you have a driver disk that came with the Surf Squirrel. My Driver disk for the STANDARD Squirrel has a "Emulate CDTV" option, where the files required to boot from the CD ROM is placed on a floppy. You boot from the floppy (I assume this is where the drivers get loaded in RAM) and then It boots from the CD ROM. I don't know if this is the case with the Surf version, but I think I read somewhere that you could boot from it...... Try a Google search for more info.

amifreak · 19 November 2004, 21:50

thank you for ansering my question wil try to do what you suggest.

Bamiga2002 · 20 November 2004, 13:15

Isn't it possible to boot from cd with BPPC? Haven't tried it but there is a "CDRom Boot" option in the bootmenu.

amifreak · 20 December 2004, 01:57

i know its possible to do in the user-startup cause i remember i did it with the cu amiga cover discs i have found a program on aminet called mountcd but it dosent work and i think it is only for IDE drives does anyone know what to write in the user-startup to make a cd boot?

17 November 2004, 16:55	#1
amifreak Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: denmark Age: 46 Posts: 13	help wanted on how to boot from cd help i have a problem i have an amiga 1200 with O.S 3.5 SCSI SURF SQUIRREL AND TOSHIBA CD-ROM drive 81 mb hd system works fine but i cannot boot direcly from a cd on startup it always loads the workbench first but i would like to be able to autoboot from cd i know theres a way to do this by modifiring the startup-sequence or user-startup but i do not know what to change since im not good at this sort of thing does can someone please help the jumper on the cd drive is set to 2 by the way thanks Last edited by amifreak; 18 November 2004 at 12:59.

19 November 2004, 21:50	#4
amifreak Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: denmark Age: 46 Posts: 13	thanks thank you for ansering my question wil try to do what you suggest.

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18 November 2004, 23:59	#2
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	WHAT exactly do you want to boot from CD ??? The Amiga needs to load a CDFileSystem first, before you can access the CDRom .... so booting from CD is not possible .... Anyway, there is a CD32 Emulator for the Amiga (Aminet ?) that can boot a CD32 Software CD by putting the CDFS Driver in Ram ...

19 November 2004, 00:10	#3
lloyd Mehh :D Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bristol, SW UK Age: 61 Posts: 242	I assume you have a driver disk that came with the Surf Squirrel. My Driver disk for the STANDARD Squirrel has a "Emulate CDTV" option, where the files required to boot from the CD ROM is placed on a floppy. You boot from the floppy (I assume this is where the drivers get loaded in RAM) and then It boots from the CD ROM. I don't know if this is the case with the Surf version, but I think I read somewhere that you could boot from it...... Try a Google search for more info.

20 November 2004, 13:15	#5
Bamiga2002 BlizzardPPC'less Join Date: May 2004 Location: Finland Age: 46 Posts: 3,210	Isn't it possible to boot from cd with BPPC? Haven't tried it but there is a "CDRom Boot" option in the bootmenu.

20 December 2004, 01:57	#6
amifreak Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: denmark Age: 46 Posts: 13	i know its possible to do in the user-startup cause i remember i did it with the cu amiga cover discs i have found a program on aminet called mountcd but it dosent work and i think it is only for IDE drives does anyone know what to write in the user-startup to make a cd boot?

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