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U-Boot has no say in what sort of file systems are bootable. The program that scans all the disk partitions and makes up the list (the "AmigaOS 4.x U-Boot BootLoader" screen) is amigaboot.ub, which is written into the SD card on the mobo.

Thanks for the information. It really clears things up ...

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Hi, Tony!

According to the docs, "The system volume can be formatted as NGFS and the NGFS volume booted on the X-1000 and X-5000 machines."

I tried this today on my X-5000 and couldn't get it to work. The partitioning, formatting, and ...

328gts wrote:I hope you've got your X5K up n running nice n stable now ??

As a matter of fact, I just installed the pre-release build this afternoon. The system seems to be working quite nicely now. Kudos to the AmigaOS team!

Are you saying you've had the X5000 for >1 year without being able to at least boot OS 4.1 FE?

Not exactly. A-EON sold me a Cyrus board with the expectation that I'd be able to join the AmigaOS beta program. For reasons that were never made clear to me, that didn't happen.

Instead, I was given ...

It starts to read from the CD but when the progress bar reaches it's end the optical drive just spins down and the monitor goes into hibernation.

What is your GPU/monitor setup? I had a similar issue when I built my X5000. The CD would boot fine, but right before Workbench came up, my monitor ...

ssolie wrote:Last I heard the serial numbers were sent to the dealers so contact your dealer for info.

Thanks. I bought it directly from A-EON according to the invoice and PayPal transaction. Will keep trying. I'm really looking forward to getting this system up and running.

Customers have started to receive their AmigaOS serial numbers so this forum is now open for business.

Awesome! Any idea how to obtain one of these mythical serial numbers? I purchased a Cyrus board from A-EON over a year ago and have been waiting patiently for a semi-usable version of the OS ...