The problem that I was trying to get around was simple, every time I went from Debian Squeeze back into AmigaOS, the menu selection
would "bomb out" and leave me looking at a CFE prompt. If this sounds familiar, please read on for the detailed symptoms and the fix that I found.
The Problem, in detail:
From Debian Squeeze, selecting "shutdown" from the LXDE menu would shut Debian down properly, and leave me with a text prompt saying
"System Halted, OK to turn off power". At that point I'd press the case reset, and the machine would reboot as normal.. except that
after making an initial selection from the CFE boot menu, I'd get "dumped" into a CFE command line with an error that looks something like
"could not load ide0.1:amigaboot.of Insufficient Memory"
Getting started again is simple enough.. enter "menu" and the menu would restart, a message would declare something like
"had to read data 256 times to clear DRQ"
And I would be back in business.
Not that it was much of a problem, but I tried a different option when exiting LXDE. Instead of "Shutdown" I tried "Reboot".
This made two changes: After Debian shuts down it will go directly into the CFE startup menu without needing a reset,
and the CFE menu works perfectly the first time!
It's not a big deal. and maybe everyone else has been doing it that way all along.. sometimes I make stupid mistakes all alone.
But I thought it worth posting in case anyone else has had the same issues. I did hear one person saying thay always power
down after running Linux.. If this was why, then maybe their day can be a bit simpler now.
When exiting LXDE, use "Reboot", not "Shutdown", unless you intend to turn your computer off.
Small steps forward..
