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Help with booting the A3000 to WB 1.3?
« on: November 18, 2009, 01:39:42 PM »
I recently picked up an Amiga 3000 & an Amiga 500. I'd like to set up the Amiga 3000 to boot to 1.3 & 2.0 (it's got the 1.4 chip so I've got that option). It came with a 2.0 partition & I've created the 1.3 partition. Unfortunately, the original owner didn't keep the special A3000 1.3 kick rom. I've got the 262,144 byte version from my 500, but the 3000 needs a special 282,624 or 283,136 version that was made especially for that system. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the web & I was disappointed to find it also wasn't on the Cloanto Amiga Forever CD I purchased. Does anyone have a copy of that ROM they could email to me so I can get my A3000 booting to 1.3? Thanks! My email is 'time4radio@hotmail.com'.
 

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Re: Help with booting the A3000 to WB 1.3?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 05:07:31 PM »
Quote from: amiga92570;530093
kickstart 1.3 or 2.0x should be copied to a partition specifically named WB_1.3 or WB_2.x, respectively, and put in DEVS:kickstart, an absolute system location from where the A3000 system will find it at bootstrap and copy its image into RAM.
I made 2 bootable partitions (WB_2.x was already there, so I created WB_1.3).  I copied Workbench 1.3 OS to the proper partition & I've tried several versions of 1.3 kickstart rom in the 'Dev' directory.  No luck so far.  It starts, but when I use the 262,144 byte version it has a software error (since it's the wrong version for the A3000 KS 1.4 boot menu) & another larger (540-ish byte) version I found says it's missing 'bonus' info & forces a reboot.  Hoping to snag a 1.3 kickstart file specifically for the A3000 with KS 1.4 (from what I've researched, it'll be either 282,624 or 283,136 in size).  So far, no luck!  Hoping someone has a 3000 with a working 1.3 partition & a copy of the ROM file they can pass along...?  I've got ReloKick & that works OK, but it doesn't let me see the hard drive.   Thanks!
 

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Re: Help with booting the A3000 to WB 1.3?
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2009, 01:22:55 PM »
To: BuzzBrain  Thanks for sending the ROM.  Tried it, but it's not the right one (doesn't work on an A3000 with the 1.4 KS boot rom).  It's the 'standard' 262,144 byte version without the A3000 bonus stuff needed with KS 1.4.  Worth a try, though!  I appreciate it.  Still looking...
 

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Re: Help with booting the A3000 to WB 1.3?
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2009, 06:04:14 PM »
I've found a Kickstart 2 SuperkickStart disk, but no luck so far finding a 1.3 Superkickstart disk.  Anybody have an image of one?  I'd be happy to try going that route!
 

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Re: Help with booting the A3000 to WB 1.3?
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2009, 08:34:04 PM »
Wow... I didn't realize I had what I needed & didn't even know it.  Thanks!  By any chance do you remember how to extract it from the SuperKickStart Disk?  You mentioned a shell tool.  Is it a command-line type thing or is there a GUI interface?  Thanks for your help!