I've been trying to follow the youtube guide but cannot quite manage to get it to work, if anyone can help that would be much appreciated.
Using this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBkEm0lGsI
I think there are a few steps that aren't exactly clear, perhaps I need to watch the earlier videos? If you could help me out that would be much appreciated.
1. What VHD should I be using to boot?
2. What drives should be mounted? I imagine 0-0 for boot vhd and 0-1 for the games?
3. What path should the vhd, cd and floppy folders be on? Watching the video it appears that all files are in /games/ao486 (boot roms, cd, floppy and vhds). I noticed if I try use /games/ao486 it does not boot at all, for me it seems the boot roms must be in /ao486 (top level, not in games). This might be because I'm using an SD card and not an external harddrive, but it did confuse me.
Initially I was trying some of the boot vhds I found on the archive.org. There is quite a few out there, but they don't seem to work with these custom game collections. I think the "imgset" command to set the iso does not work.
I noticed there was a new release to archive.org with the new video posted by flynn, so I tried it this evening with my custom games collection built using the steps in the video. Firstly there seems to be two boot drives, and I'm not exactly sure which one to use.
If I try to boot it with 0-0 as the boot drive (I tried both), and 0-1 as my games collection I get the error...
"Please mount a games VHD to the "Mount Secondary HDD *.VHD" on your MiSTer and reset."
If I mount my games collection to both 0-1 and 1-1, it boots into tdl ok but then the games don't seem to launch. Probably because the cd mount command then replaces 1-1 with the iso? Not exactly sure.
Sorry if these are dumb questions, but I've been trying to follow the guide closely and still struggling to get this to work. I am downloading the large collection which i'm hopeful will work, but it's many many more games than I need.
EDIT: So I think the problem seems to be that if I use the boot .vhd's I've found on archive.org, these don't support "imgset" to mount the cds. If I use the flynnbits boot .vhd from his newest release something seems to go wrong with mounting the games .vhd in 0-1. Even if I exit TDL, and try to navigate to d:\ this does not work "General failure reading drive F", weird that it says "F" not "D" ? I've seen other users mention weird quirks around ide devices with windows boot vhds?