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Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:46 pm
by Skateman
sure i can help.
Did you eventually manage to make one daveyw ?
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:31 am
by daveyw
Not successfully. I flashed the image to another SD card, but with that installed, my X5000 wouldn't even power on let alone boot. So I have given up for now, gone back to my original SD card.
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:07 pm
by Skateman
How did you flash the IMG file?
You can use balena etcher for example. This works fine for me.
https://etcher.balena.io/
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:18 pm
by daveyw
I followed the documentation here, using RawWrite
https://wiki.amiga.org/index.php/AmigaO ... date_Uboot
I'll have another go using balena etcher later this week.
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:14 pm
by OldFart
@daveyw
Creating a new SD card is tricky
I've got here more then 1 SD card, including the original. They all show the same symptoms.
@skateman
I have
https://www.conrad.nl/nl/p/renkforce-rf ... fresh=true adapter. Different brand, but looks identical, that I hooked up to my RaspberryPi2. The RS232c cable is(/was!) hooked up to the serial port of the X5000.
I installed Putty on the Rasp and then from /dev I had to make a choice for a 'tty'-entry. There are quite a number listed, from simple 'tty' to 'tty0' upto and including 'tty63', so all in all 65 options. For no specific or particular reasons I chose 'tty0', with its editor I set Speed to 115200 and connection 'Serial'
Further down the page I selected SSH --> Serial
- Serial line to connect to '/dev/ttyS0'
- Speed 115200
- Databits 8
- Stopbits 1
- Parity None
- Flowcontrol None
Where does that '/dev/ttyS0' come from? As I already mentioned, there's only tty, tty0 ... tty63, no ttyS0''-entry.
I'm not in any particular hurry: the X5000 board is packed in the box I first got it in from A-Eon, ready to be sent to 'them' for checking, but after repetitive e-mails, up to now I haven't gotten any answer yet.
OIldFart
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:27 pm
by xeno74
I use a USB null modem RS-232 serial cable (
/dev/ttyUSB0).
Code: Select all
X5000> setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda4"
Further information:
X5000 via null modem RS-232 serial cable
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:53 am
by xeno74
Screenshot:

Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:17 pm
by OldFart
@xeno74:
Thanks for this info and when I'm in the mood for any further endeavours I may refer to this again, but, as I already stated: I'm not in a hurry...
OldFart
Re: King of Drama, or the final attempt of booting my X5000
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:40 pm
by Hypex
If it matters I find a lot of serial problems are due to root. So it may help to run as root or go through sudo if that's configured. Other ones I've tried are CuteCom and Serial port terminal.
It did look slow to boot. Off DVD would slow it down. You replaced your SATA cables so should have fixed any drive issues.