Amiga early startup menu keyboard shortcuts

[gulliver]

Hi, I had an unfortunate incident with my dog. She chewed my three Amiga mouses

So using the keyboard I went to the early sartup menu, and all I want is to enter in the Expansion boards submenu to check if all my zorro boards are okay. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to enter there?


Thanks in advance

[gulliver]

Solved

Many thanks to Rebel-CD32 for the solution:

..."Just hold the Amiga key and use the arrow keys to move the cursor. It might switch between PAL and NTSC each time you hit a key, but it'll do the job. Amiga +Left Alt for Left Mouse Button. "...

[alenppc]

How do you access the Early startup menu using just the keyboard?

[prowler]

Originally Posted by alenppc

How do you access the Early startup menu using just the keyboard?

Originally Posted by gulliver

Amiga +Left Alt for Left Mouse Button.

My guess would be Left Amiga + Left Alt + Right Amiga + Right Alt for both mouse buttons.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by prowler

My guess would be Left Amiga + Left Alt + Right Amiga + Right Alt for both mouse buttons.

You only need to press one Amiga key, but I tried both ways and none of these methods work.

How did you do it, gulliver? I can't enter teh early startup with a key combination.

[bdb]

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Originally Posted by gulliver

Hi, I had an unfortunate incident with my dog. She chewed my three Amiga mouses

So using the keyboard I went to the early sartup menu, and all I want is to enter in the Expansion boards submenu to check if all my zorro boards are okay. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to enter there?

You have an excellent question there, but eventually you will 1) need a mouse, 2) need a dog-proof solution. This is not what you asked for but, I'd get a PS/2 to Amiga adapter because PS/2 mice can be bought from Wal-Mart; and (having a cat that "eats" only ear-phone wires), I'd ask a vet.

[Jope]

Before OS3.9, there is no keyboard shortcut (if my memory doesn't fail me). With the 3.9 updated boot menu it's by holding help down when you reboot.

[bdb]

So what you are saying is, that with the boot from KS 3.1 there is no keyboard intervention, but after a BootRomUpdate in 3.9 there is a resident bit of code that allows the 'Help' key to act as 2-button mouse override. Then if you don't use the Rom update file, you still have the problem?

[Jope]

Pretty much yes.. The bit of code is in the updated early startup menu itself.

[gulliver]

I have a 3.9 custom made kickstart rom.
I was so desperate to see if my Amiga was okay that I pressed all keys and tryed all combinations, until I got there (the bootmenu). I am sorry for my non scientific method
Using the method Rebel-CD32 described I was able to enter the Expansion Diagnostics menu. I checked and was fortunate everything was fine.

My dog is a 3 month puppy that loves to chew cables. There is nothing terribly wrong with her, she is just a tireless and curious puppy (arent they all?). Anyway, after the incident, I sprayed all house cables with a non toxic dog smell repellent substance I bought in the vet and now she avoids them.

I hope the new mouse I bought arrives today

[Amiga1992]

OK, so this doesn't work, basically, on any standard Amiga. Thanks for the clarification.