MorphOS Boot CD

Graphic cards support: Radeon7000 (VE) / 7200 / 7500 / 8500 (LE) / 9000 (PRO )/ 9100 / 9200(SE) / 9250, a card with at least 128MB is 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.
• In order to have access to a mouse and keyboard while you are installing from a USB device, we suggest you use a USB hub to connect these input devices.
  
• 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. Please be patient. This may take a short while. Once it is done booting, click on the iWizard icon and start the download of the full MorphOS ISO..
  
• Please note that the default ISO download directory is ram: - however the ISO will not fit there. Therefore, you must manually adjust the download path to match the partition you are installing MorphOS to.

• Special note: The Efika sound driver is currently not included. This will be solved via an update shortly.
  

Installation

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.

Upgrade

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"