SuperKickstart

[save2600]

That's what I've been lead to understand as well. That Kickstart disks were only around because the OS wasn't ready or good enough to be burned to ROM.

Screw that. The way I see it, Kickstart disks are an awesome concept. On a system such as the A3000 though, at least you had the choice of booting Kickstart off the HD to speed things up. Very cool option, but I always wondered... if you have say Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 on the first partition of a HD, how do you tell the computer to boot from a particular partition appropriate for said Kickstart?

What do you do... put OS 1.3 on the next available partition, make it bootable and if you want 3.1, you select the partition with OS 3.1 in early startup?

[save2600]

There was a boot menu option that allowed you to select 1.3 or 2.x (and HD or floppy).  HD partitions needed to be named WB_1.3 and WB_2.x with the appropriate software in order to boot.

Oh yeah, that's right - thanks! That boot option was in that special A3000 Kickstart 1.4 ROM set (which I also have) Totally makes sense. So it's pretty much an "automatic" affair booting the appropriate OS then. Cool!

Assuming that option in Kickstart 1.4 would load 3.1 (even though the screen might say 2.x) that is.  :lol:

[save2600]

Would be nice for us A1000 owners to have a custom Kickstart with a specific SCSI xxx.device included for non-autobooting SCSI cards such as the Starboard.