Disk Problems; Notes On Floppy-Based Systems; Notes On Hard Disk Systems - Commodore Amiga A1200 User Manual

5-4 Identifying and Solving Problems
the ScreenMode sections in the Workbench User's Guide, and your
monitor manual.
Disk Problems
Notes on Floppy-Based Systems
If the Amiga comes on, but does not boot, check the following before
suspecting a hardware problem:
• Did you insert a copy of your Workbench disk when prompted
by the initial animated sequence?
• Did you insert the floppy properly into the drive?
• Is the Workbench disk you inserted an exact copy of your
original Workbench disk, or a disk you know to be bootable?
If the Amiga will not boot from a given disk, try others that you
know to be bootable. You should always keep your original,
unmodified Workbench disk available in case of such a problem.
If the Amiga will not boot from any floppy, even those you know to
be good, then it is probable that the floppy drive or the computer
itself has some hardware problem.
Notes on Hard Disk Systems
If the Amiga comes on, but does not boot, check the following before
suspecting a hardware problem:
• Do you have a bootable hard drive partition in the system?
• Is the partition you want to boot from enabled, and does it have
a boot priority above other bootable devices or partitions?
• Does your bootable partition have all the required directories
and files available on it?
If you have trouble booting from your hard disk, try booting from
floppy. If you can boot from floppy, then your hard disk setup, or
something on your hard disk, probably is the source of the trouble.
Mter
booting from floppy you may still be able to access your hard
disk to try to determine the source of the trouble.