What am I doing incorrectly ?

[royalcrown]

I have an A3000d with scsi hard drive on it that was working fine when I got it. The computer was just so full of crap that I had no space at all so I decided to reformat it. It has roms with 40.68 on it so I assume kickstart 3.1 roms (so no KS partition needed on HD right ?)

I have all the workbench 3.1 disks and let it go through the default install, when it asks to reboot it does so into AmigaOS instead of the WB and gives me:

C:Version failed returncode 20

If anyone knows how to fix this, please post it in "simple" steps as I am a super Amiga noob (not PC just Amiga).

[royalcrown]

Edit your startup-sequence with:

Code: [Select]

ed s:startup-sequence

Then remove the >NIL: part of the line with C:Version. Save it and reboot.

It should spit out a more descriptive error message so we can diagnose the cause of this problem more easily.

Okay after the All rights reserved bit it says:

Kickstart 40.68, could not find version information for ''

then the line after that is the returncode 20 line

[royalcrown]

I made them from tosec I had as some of the originals are damaged, I was wondering if that is the prob.

[royalcrown]

sorry guys, no pci slots on my pc, just pcie, (maximus v formula) hooking up my 1200 to see if I can crossdos something, but it hates floppies, will keep you guys posted.

[royalcrown]

Just thought I'd update you guys.

It was my install disks, they were crap ! I fixed my 1200 by removing the crappy, moded panasonic drive and putting in a real C= unit. That was a pain as the MB wasn't modded, but I had to (needlessly) check anyway to find out. With a good drive in it I CrossDos'ed a whole new set. Took FOREVER, but am up and running'.

Thank you guys for all your help !

Me fighting crappy disks ==> :swords:

my opinion of Escom PC drives ==> :hammer:

[royalcrown]

Can you boot from floppy?  Can you partition and format the hard drive?

If so, you should be able to copy the system manually to the partition you wish to boot from.

I understand that you ultimately want a clean and complete 3.1 install as a foundation to a new system.

Of course I could boot my install disk was in great shape it was some other disk in the chain that must've been corrupt but not enough for the install to notice.

Running clean 3.1 now !

[royalcrown]

@diretorn

As I understand it I do not have that option as the machine came with 3.xx roms plugged in.

[royalcrown]

Glad its working.  Keep us posted on your next moves.  It will be fun to see where you go from here.

Trying to get picasso to work with spectrum, what a pain in the A..

[royalcrown]

Yeah, that'd make winuae my friend, just setup scsi hard drive controller via usb and fix in winuae. I was wishing I had had one last weekend.

[royalcrown]

I may do the betterWB, but I want to experience the C= os warts and all for a bit to get a feel for the baseline user exp. Like following the recipe a time or two before tweaking it. Never used an amiga, so don't know what gripes to have yet. Other than Picasso96 seems to be a p.i.t.a. to get configured...prob just "noobness"..lol.