Amiga 1000 Not Booting to Workbench

[Steady]

@Alley_Cat_Jack

Sounds like your startup-sequence is trying to automatically start something that needs the comm.keys file.

When it has stopped, I assume you are looking at the CLI prompt (1> or something similar). Try typing "Type S:Startup-Sequence" or "Ed S:Startup-Sequence" and share the content here for assistance.

[Steady]

P.S. Welcome :-D

[Steady]

It is normally 2 disks (Kickstart and Workbench), but there is also a disk that combines both called (I think) KickBench. Perhaps that is what he is using.

[Steady]

Wow, that is the dirtiest I have seen. I can't believe it even works ... but it does.

The 2 second pause will be the loading of the Comm app and it is that which is looking for Comm.keys. It is designed to boot straight into that. If you ever get that keyboard working then making changes to your startup-sequence can sort out your issues. It seems you have slightly more pressing matters though :-/