Can't bring up the OSD in the ao486 core?

[TheMrAwesomeness]

Hi, I'm brand new to the Mister, I just got my De10-nano today and set it up. Really liking it so far. I have been able to get cores to work and have mapped actions to my controller. However, upon starting the ao486 core, I could not get the on screen display to show up. Neither my controller nor my keyboard work. I know I am supposed to press the Windows key at the same time as F12 for this core, but that didn't work. No matter what I type, either, nothing shows up on the command prompt. Because of this, I have the feeling my keyboard is not detected for some reason. It works perfectly fine everywhere else, I was able to play the Turbografx core without a problem. I'm stuck here, since without being able to bring up the OSD, I can't install DOS on this core. Does anyone know what could possibly be contributing to my issue?

[paulbnl]

Is your Main MiSTer up to date?

[TheMrAwesomeness]

Yeah, first thing I did was connect it via ethernet and I assume it was the most recent firmware that was downloaded.

[bazza_12]

check you've d/loaded the a0486 core and all the necessary files, boot0/boot1 etc.. check the file sizes are correct..

[TheMrAwesomeness]

I've checked and it seems I have all the files I need, according to the guides I read/watched. I tried with another keyboard, with the same results, so I ruled out it being an issue with this keyboard, specifically. Here is a picture of what the boot screen looks like when I start the ao486 core, and a couple screenshots of what files I have on my SD card. Let me know if anything in these pictures seems off. https://imgur.com/a/QNHOuaW

[flynnsbit]

Don't assume the update scripts are going to do every little thing for you. I would go back to the instructions for the core and walk through each line in detail: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer
It is probably the boot roms.

[TheMrAwesomeness]

OK. The boot roms are the ones linked in the GitHub page, though. I’ll try redoing the process from scratch and see if that helps.

[TheMrAwesomeness]

I can't find much info for guides to using this core, but all the boot screens I found look slightly different than the one that I experienced. My boot screen didn't show the revision number and only showed "Booting from Hard Disk," there is no "Booting from Floppy" message that appears. Also, the "options: eltorito" is something I have not seen on anyone else's boot screen that I was able to find. It looks like something is wrong with my setup for this core, but I meticulously followed the instructions on the GitHub page again, even tried previous versions of the .rbf file to see if it made a difference, but the same results occurred. Here is a comparison of my boot screen with another boot screen I was able to find in a video guide. Maybe the boot roms on GitHub are bad and I need to download them from somewhere else? Maybe there are some settings in the main menu I need to tweak for the core to run properly? https://imgur.com/a/MalAiNf

[bazza_12]

none of those VHD files you have (1990 etc) are bootable drives.. not that it matters if you can't get into the OSD.. i'm confused as to why windows+F12 isn't working..

[TheMrAwesomeness]

I ran the update script again and the OSD works now. Not sure why it didn't before. Thanks for the advice.