Unable to boot from HxC device

[brian_ronn]

Hi Wizards

I have trouble booting from the Lotharek HxC device.

My Emax has a HD and I'm able to boot from HD. When booting from HD the Emax tell me that the os is a Plus 1.0.

When making the hfe files on the SD card I have put the emaxplus10.emx file in between the emx banks and I have converted the files to hfe files using the HxC floppy emulator software but cannot boot from the hfe files.

I can se that I can boot from the SD  hfe files from sector 12 to 28 and the Emax freezes with blank spaces or scrambled letters on the display. Using different emx os (plusHD, plusSEHD, HD) I get the same result.

If I copy the OS software from HD and overwrite one of the hfe files on the SD card I can boot from this particular hfe bank only.

Do you know what might be wrong with the hfe files since they are unbootable?

Best regards

Brian

[who]

I had a similar problem with mine, except I couldn't boot from the HD.  I found that if I booted from an old floppy, then copied the OS to the HD, I could boot from the HD.  OS files downloaded from the net wouldn't work except the one provided by the makers of the HxC.  (However, the one provided by the makers of the HxC was an early version that didn't offer SE/HD functionality.)

I suspect there is something between shared between the machine and floppies created by it.  Perhaps to do with the SE software??

[Wolfram]

1. be sure to have the newest firmware of the HxC.
2. boot the EMAX from the HD
3. format the floppy and copy the OS from the HD to the floppy. (Master / Special)

[brian_ronn]

Hi

"Unable to boot from HxC device" is now solved. Explanation follows here.

I downloaded the quickinstall_floppydiskimages.zip from this website:

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html

as suggested from Shawn Ward in the yahoo Emax group.

I extracted the emaxos.emx (OS3.2) from the zip file and placed the file in all folders of the SD card and reimaged the hfe files using the HxCFloppyEmulator software.

Now I'm able to boot from every hfe bank on the SD card.

The first time I booted from the SD card I had to recalibrate the Emax. No problem.

I've lost the plus OS functionality which I had on the HD , but what the heck, that's not all that important.

Thanks to Shawn. 

Best regards

Brian

 

[Wolfram]

But why do you boot from a slow Floppy (HxC) if you have a fast HD?

[brian_ronn]

But why do you boot from a slow Floppy (HxC) if you have a fast HD?

Hi Wolfram

My HD is in a scsi tower with other harddrives and would like to have a second boot option when the HD goes to heaven.

Thank you all for replying and trying to help. :-)

Best regards

Brian