@kas1e
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Yes, I can confirm that the X1000 appears to be a beta version of the X5000. The X5000 does not have all of the issues that the X1000 does; it truly feels like the next step. At least for the time being, here's what I discovered when comparing the X1000 to the X5000:
I found when I first used it CFE would easily crash when exiting AmigaBoot. They weren't going to fix it or didn't know how so CFE would remain in an unstable beta state. Funny now the AEON version doesn't let you exit.
Oh here's another one. Cursor up in CFE. History is good to have but all the past command merging looks confusing.
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Yeah, when i see this "[HELO][DRAM]" thing i firstly think about a battery, and about memory sticks not being fit correctly. But seems for one it fixed by repluging sata cables, for other one by swapping memory sticks.. strange
The X1000 hardware can be sensitive. I found even a thin power cable can cause it to crash and reboot. I had to swap my power cable for a thicker one in my collection when I took my X1000 out for a walk at the Amiga club and and had problems.
I've seen the insufficient memory confusing error many times. And when it did boot sometimes it would stall. Or would go into a crash and reboot loop. Needing hard reset on case to be pressed or it wouldn't follow through.
It started to get more unstable as time went on. It started crashing when booting from HDD. Then needed power cycle or another reboot before it booted fully. At one staged I swapped around my RAM sticks which seemed to help, or it just cleaned the slots, since PPC doesn't like dirt and grime build up. Then I had power problems. Didn't want to turn off. Black screen of death etc.
So I replaced the battery, replaced the RAM and put in two 2GB sticks interleaved for optimal access, and replaced my SATA cables with proper ones with holding clips. It's been good ever since. Does my head in with sloppy firmware that just crashes instead of verifying and giving an error.
That reminds me, the X1000 board should have a graphics card holding clip, but they didn't put one on so in some positions your graphics card can slip out of place.
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Sadly no USB boot :( There is a bug in the CFE or amigaboot: cfe can see usb, cfe can load amigaboot from usb, but then amigaboot didnt see usb-installcd as boot device. I was told that this is a cfe bug, but it looks like amigaboot didnt attach boot device tree properly.
I think they need to come up with a better excuse. As you found at least one AmigaBoot has support for USB booting in the change log. Still need to track that sucker down. CFE can boot from USB. I booted Linux kernels for years off a USB stick plugged into my Mac keyboard. I think the problem is AmigaBoot.
Likely I didn't run into too many USB issues because of this. Mac keyboards have a built in hub and it is plugged into keyboard port. So CFE could easily see USB sticks almost accidentally because of my setup. I tried in other ports and CFE did have some detection issues. Most of the time it detected but wouldn't mount.
However my case does have a USB bug. I have ThermalTake VF-I which has USB2/3 ports on front I plugged into board headers. The front USB2 port has never worked and crashes OS4. The USB3 port works fine. Never solved that.