[A/UX] Drop-in clean A/UX install image for SCSI2SD

[uyjulian]

Is there a bootable disk image that has that driver/software? I’ve looked around and have not been able to find one.

For disk images, they should be available on Macintosh Garden.

For bootable ones however, I'm not aware of any, so you need to boot from a different disk (e.g. System 7.x) first

 

[mousehouse]

Thank you all for the recommendations... (insert Borat voice) GREAT SUCCESS !

For future reference :

• I downloaded the Lacie Silverlining software from here : https://www.macintoshrepository.org/23793-lacie-silverlining-5-8-3-silverlining-lite-2-2-1 . This one has a bootable disk image that I put on my FloppyEmu.
• Then hold command-shift-option-del when turning the machine on to skip the HD boot and boot from the image.
• After booting run the Silverlining software, select SCSI ID#0 and install the driver (it asks for some tests to do).
• After this I'm stuck in a partition editor that I cannot leave, but by now the driver has already been installed.

System now boots.

I suspect the Mac driver in the image is not compatible with a 68040 or something along those lines.

Anyway, now it's play time!

 

[mousehouse]

Hmmm unfortunately my joy was short lived. I managed to get one proper boot out of the system on BlueSCSI but now have massive disk corruption. Even after fsck'ing the whole thing it refuses to boot into the UI and just drops me into a console mode with Getty errors etc. Need to start over.



So, I am trying the SCSI2SD approach again. I flashed it onto the SCSISD again, put it into the Quadra and booted from the Silverlining floppy. Now the strangest thing happens which might explain why it is not working... I see 3 SCSI IDs while only 2 are configured on the SCSI2SD. Verified using different boards...



Anybody see this before? The 3 SCSI disks are all invalid according to Silverlining and it is unable to repair. When I check the disk in my Mac I can display the partition table without issues.



Fun install this is... even AMIX from tape on my 3000UX was easier

 

[daanvdl]

I found that if I unchecked "Enable Unit Attention" and "Disable glitch filter" it started working. On my other SCSI2SD card with the install I did from scratch those are both checked.

Probably you already tried this, but if not; maybe worth trying.

 

[mousehouse]

Update!

I've managed to get a stable A/UX 3.1 running on my IIci using the BlueSCSI. It runs perfectly, connects to TC/IP with a random NIC installed, does all of the A/UX magic. All the goodies.

This is however all on the 68030. As soon as I install my Interware Booster 040 (with cache) the A/UX kernel fails to boot. I've checked and the famous System Enabler 040 is installed on the System 7.1 side. No other software is installed.

My best guess is that it needs a change on the A/UX side of things but Google is not really helping me out... Any hints appreciated!

 

[eharmon]

Update!

I've managed to get a stable A/UX 3.1 running on my IIci using the BlueSCSI. It runs perfectly, connects to TC/IP with a random NIC installed, does all of the A/UX magic. All the goodies.

This is however all on the 68030. As soon as I install my Interware Booster 040 (with cache) the A/UX kernel fails to boot. I've checked and the famous System Enabler 040 is installed on the System 7.1 side. No other software is installed.

My best guess is that it needs a change on the A/UX side of things but Google is not really helping me out... Any hints appreciated!

I don't believe any 030 -> 040 accelerators will work with A/UX. Best you can do is a fast 030.

 

[mousehouse]

that does make sense… I’m surprised that it runs relatively fine on the 030.

 

[eharmon]

that does make sense… I’m surprised that it runs relatively fine on the 030.

Zero seek time on the SD card makes a huuuuuuuuge difference. Unix thrashes the disks like crazy compared to System 7.

It is quite a bit speedier on an 040, but an SD card for the boot disk definitely makes an 030 tolerable.

 

[uyjulian]

Cache card on 030 helps massively with performance on IIci (especially if you are using the built in video).

 

[bamdad]

I have managed to start the X11 Session -- just need to create normal user account and login under X session in the A/UX login option menu.

Something seems scripted into the root account that prevents it from starting xterm, even if all references to xterm are removed from .x11start.

in case anyone needs this: just set your login shell to something other than bash (preferably sh) and X will work. you can start bash afterwards..