Amiga boot selector program Bootman
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:53 pm
I am wondering if anyone has familiarity or experience with Bootman. I got my A2000 on Ebay a number of years ago, and recently brought it out of storage, found the battery backup cap had leaked an rendered it inoperative. I got a working A2000 from Ebay, and with much difficulty including having to get my GVP 68040 accelerator card fixed, I got it up and running. Then my stupidity struck. It was booting up using what I have since found to be a boot selector program called Bootman, and booting a setup that was listed as OriginalStartup. Well this sequence would boot and then request a volume HELP be put in any drive, I had no Idea what this was, so I cancelled it, and the booting proceeded normally from there. But I wanted to get rid of this , and so I thought if I cleared out the bootman selection window it would just boot straight into the 3.1 workbench installed on the hard drive. Nope, by doing that I bricked the booting routine, the boot process would start and hang, probably where the Bootman was suppose to display it's menu. I can boot into Workbench 3.1 from a floppy, and the 244mb hard drive divided into 2 partitions DH0 and DH1 were available.I have been unable to find Bootman unless I run a program called OPUS 5, then I find it in a directory called s. But I can not execute any program from OPUS 5. I tried a Command Line interface, but s is not available, and if I open the DH0 window, it is also not available. There is a Bootman Pref file in the Prefs? drawer, but while I can get it to run (not in OPUS 5), and am able to add a startup sequence to the bootman menu that shows up, it seems to only be for the floppy drives as DF0 through DF3 as drives available. So I am lost as to how to get my booting sequence back. Anyone have ideas cause I am not happy with having a paperweight as big as the A2000 on my desk (LOL).