Getting an A1200 motherboard to boot.

[Argus]

You can boot off df1: no problem.  I bought a used 1200 before and was having trouble getting the internal drive to line up with the case so disks would not insert properly. Anyway, I ended up just doing the boot and install from an old external C= drive.  The Amiga should do a boot check df0:, df1: then the internal ide port.  Your external floppy port may be bad if this doesn't work.  I also once installed a harddisk on an a600 w/o a keyboard using the same method so that shouldn't be a problem.

[Argus]

Here's an idea: You could download the 3.0 Workbench disk in dms format (download a copy of dms too) on your peecee.  Copy the two files onto a 720K formatted pc floppy.  Put the floppy in your A2000 and read it via pc0: or CrossDos. Copy the files to your Amiga's harddisk (put dms in c:) and then open a shell and type dms -write "name of file". This will put the Workbench3.0 file back to 880K floppy (make sure you have a blank dd one in df0:.  Wala! a bootable 3.0 Workbench floppy for the A1200.