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Offline kolla

Re: Will Amiga OS 3.2 require a diff kickstart to 3.1.4?
« on: February 21, 2021, 02:48:46 PM »
With 3.2 being able to bootstrap from 3.1, I would prefer (and recommend) using OS 3.1 kickstart over using 3.1.4 kickstart, and simply use a dedicated “old” FFS bootstrap partition for LoadModule and rom modules. This way retains max compatibility with older software, avoid certain buggy shell, booting from floppy (wb and icon lib) etc.
« Last Edit: February 21, 2021, 03:35:13 PM by kolla »
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: Will Amiga OS 3.2 require a diff kickstart to 3.1.4?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2021, 03:38:48 PM »
In your case, it's best you stick with 1.3.
Why?
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: Will Amiga OS 3.2 require a diff kickstart to 3.1.4?
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2021, 02:34:59 AM »
If you can softkick 3.1 you can also softkick 3.2. You may wish to have a minimalist “legacy” FFS partition that holds the softkicker and kickstart (and bootctrl to disable this bootstrap partition from next reset onwards, so that the 3.2 partition becomes default boot filesystem.)
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS