MorphOS Boot CD (Pegasos 1/2 and Efika Edition) ------------------------------------------------ $VER: MorphOS.readme 2.0 (3.6.2008) Graphic cards supported: ------------------------ - Radeon7000(VE)/7200/7500/8500(LE)/9000(PRO)/9100/9200(SE)/9250, a card with at least 128MB recommended - Voodoo3/4/5 - SiS6326, SiS305, SiS315 - Permedia2/Permedia2v Booting: -------- Pegasos 1/2: - Turn on your Pegasos 1/2 :) - Press escape on the keyboard until you reach the Open Firmware prompt - Insert the CD - At the Open Firmware prompt, type: (Pegasos 2) boot cd boot.img (Pegasos 1) boot /ide/cd bootpeg1.img - MorphOS will now start booting. Once it is done booting, follow the on screen instructions. Note: if your firmware doesn't recognize your cdrom (use show-devs to find out), try to use another cdrom drive. Efika: - Download morphos-2.0-efikainstall.img and put it in the root directory of a USB mass storage device. - Insert the USB device into a USB port on the Efika. - Turn on your Efika. - Press escape on the keyboard until you reach the Open Firmware prompt. - At the Open Firmware prompt, type: boot scsi:0 morphos-2.0-efikainstall.img - MorphOS will now start booting. Once it is done booting, follow the on screen instructions. - Please note that the default ISO download directory is ram: - however the ISO will not fit there. You must manually adjust the download path to match the partition you are installing MorphOS to. Installing: ----------- Go to 'Tools' directory on the Install CD and run IWizard. It will guide you through basic configuration, partitioning, formatting and installation. You need to have at least 1 bootable partition in order to boot MorphOS from the hard drive. In case you are using a Pegasos 1 machine, you should generally install MorphOS on an FFS partition, or move the boot.img file to an FFS partition below the 1st 4GB on the hd. The Pegasos 1 OpenFirmware cannot read SFS partitions. On any of the supported platforms (Pegasos 1, Pegasos 2, Efika), the boot image must reside on a partition with a 512 byte block size since the firmware in these machines can not read partitions with a different block size. Upgrading: ---------- It is generally best to install MorphOS 2.0 on a clean partition rather than update from 1.4.5. The installer will overwrite files except for the MorphOS dir which will be renamed to MorphOS-old prior to the installation. Your :Prefs/env-archive will be copied to :Prefs/env-archive-old as IWizard copies some of the settings to the installed system. Please note that upgrading from previous versions of MorphOS is an unsupported operation; back up your system partition before attempting it and install MorphOS 2.0 from scratch in case of problems. New boot options: ----------------- BD=BootDevice/K - Boot from given device. Example: boot .. bootdevice=SDH2 The boot menu does not allow changes to the mount parameters for technical reasons, so you need to use this parameter instead. BM=BootMenu/S - Enter bootmenu without user intervention. 3D=Use3DLayers/S - Enable 3D accelerated layers, giving extra speed and real transparency. NOTE: 128MB graphics card is highly recommended! SML=SafeMemLists/S - Use old MorphOS 1.x-style memory system with extra safety checks. This could be useful for debugging some buggy applications for example. SML is much slower than the new MorphOS 2 memory system however. PC=PreloadCmd/K - Command(s) to execute before startup-sequence. Multiple commands can be given separated by a *N. Examples: boot ... PC="echo *"Hello, world*"" boot ... PC="dir sys:*Nquit" Reporting bugs, suggestions, etc: --------------------------------- Please use the MorphOS mailing list for bug reports and anything else MorphOS related. To sign up, send an email to morphos-subscribe@ml.morphos-team.net. You will receive a confirmation email, and after replying to that, you can use morphos@ml.morphos-team.net to send an email to the mailing list. There's also an informational mailinglist where news about MorphOS updates are announced. Signing up works the same as for the MorphOS mailing list, except the address to sign up is info-subscribe@ml.morphos-team.net. Only MorphOS team members can post to this mailing list. FAQ: ---- - Q: What is updated in MorphOS 2.0 compared to 1.4.5? A: Faster and better graphics, new libraries added and old updated, better applications, blankers, new 64bit DOS, state of the art memory system and much much more... - Q: What is MOSSYS: and SYS:MorphOS? A: MOSSYS: is an assign pointing to SYS:MorphOS. The idea is that SYS:MorphOS is a private directory for the operating system and you don't need to touch anything in it. A system upgrade will be done by simply putting a new directory (old one can be renamed or so). If you want to change the way the system is started edit s:user-startup, nothing else. - Q: I'd like to replace some MorphOS components with 3rd party stuff. How do I do that? A: First of all, we don't support such configuration. Once you start to replace system stuff you are on your own. Anyway, if you want to replace a library, for example MOSSYS:Libs/foobar.library, put your 3rd party foobar.library into libs: (which is SYS:Libs) and *rename* MOSSYS:Libs/foobar.library to MOSSYS:Libs/foobar.library_ (you can use any name but appending '_' is handy). The system will then fallback to LIBS:foobar.library. But you should really refrain from doing that as MorphOS libraries are heavily improved and extended compared to 3rd party stuff. - Q: Is it safe to install any kind of 3rd party MorphOS updates to MOSSYS:? A: No. It might work, but as we written already above: we do *not* support such installations in any way. Possible bug reports, help requests because of resulting problems, etc. will simply go to NIL:. Only we can made sure that all components of MorphOS fit well and problem-less together. So don't risk system stability by adding unofficial software components to MOSSYS: - Q: How do I format a disk? A: Ambient has a Format menu. - Q: But I don't see my non formatted disks on the desktop! A: But you'll see them in the Format menu. - Q: How do I configure the screenmode? A: MorphOS 2.0 should automatically recognise your monitor and generate the best configuration for it. In case you want to edit the monitor settings by hand, go to 'Monitors', chose a proper monitor in the monitor list or create one if you don't find it. Create some new screenmodes, press 'Save'. Reboot. Go to 'Screens' and select them in the listview. You may also have a look at docs/ModeEdit.pdf. - Q: I can't configure the harddisk, nothing is written to it, I get weird errors. A: Always use 80 pin IDE cables for everything. 40 pin cables are not supported. - Q: I heard one can have an openfirmware bootmenu by typing some obscure commands and.. A: DON'T try to mess around with openfirmware startup scripts or you'll end up with a machine that doesn't boot at all (really). There's a GRUB port done by Marcin Kurek available at http://tbs-software.com/morgoth/projects.html - Q: Where do I put my 3rd party MUI custom classes? A: In SYS:Classes/MUI - Q: When will XYZ work? A: When it's ready. Please don't ask developers repeatedly when something is ready as it's hard to predict and is being worked on most of the time anyway. - Q: Where has FXPaint Lite and Voyager gone which were included on older ISOs and why are those not included anymore? A: Due to changes in licensing some applications are no longer included on the ISO. - Q: I can't see 15/16/24 bits modes in screenmode requester of CandyFactory or some other application. How come? A: The application in question depends on buggy behaviour of original asl.library: the width/height/depth limits can be bypassed. You can enable the original behaviour with 'setenv save asl/MODEREQ_EMULATEBUGS 1'.