a3000 vga port

[AMC258]

You can and should flip the switch with the power on.  For this reason:  It's upside down from what you'd expect.  Enable is down, Disable is up.  So, try it both ways to make sure.  When I got my A3000UX, it had a blown fuse which was disabling the scandoubler.  Look for that.  Sorry, don't have the schematic handy.

[AMC258]

This belongs in a new thread.  But, here it is.

Early A3000's shipped with Kickstart ROM v1.4.  Yes, it is a Kickstart.  It DOES have an incomplete v1.4 of the OS on it, I have personally witnessed it on my A3000UX.  You CAN get a CLI going in 1.4, but I don't remember the trick to it.  It's worth seeing, the graphics are screwey.  Most of the vector graphics (gadgets and things) do not exist, and you can clearly see the transition from 1.3 to 2.0 as a work in progress.
One thing the ROM does different than other Kickstart ROMs though is allow you to select a Kickstart image to use instead of the 1.4 Kickstart.  You are never supposed to see the 1.4 Kickstart.

The standard installation was this:
Three hard drive partitions.  One with the OS1.3 system, including the 1.3 SuperKickstart.  One with the OS2.0 system, including the 2.0 SuperKickstart.  One called WORK: (YES!  This is where it all started with this name!) where you put everything non-OS specific.

The OS1.3 that comes with the A3000 works with hard drives, just like OS1.3 for A1000/500/2000.  I could be remembering wrong, but the way I remember is that OS1.2 worked with hard drives also, it would NOT boot directly from a hard drive though.  1.3 introduced 'Autobooting'.
 
One of these days I'm going to dig up my 1.4 ROM, and see if I can run OS4 with it installed.

BTW, C= NEVER made a SuperKickstart for OS3.1!

[AMC258]

Okay, call me schtuupit, but, what the heck is the 'bonus code'?

And, where the heck can I get my hands on this unofficial SuperKickstart 3.1 ??  Or should I just try and find one of the MANY SuperKickstarts I have and modify it?
I have every version of 2.x that was ever released on SuperKickstart!

[AMC258]

The A3000 kickstart is 512kB + bonus code.

Great.  But, what is the bonus code?

Look at the end of your superkickstart file in devs:kickstart

I don't have a DEVS:Kickstart anymore, now I have a SYS:Kickstart (OS4).  I don't know where my 1.4 ROMs are.

Just out of curiosity, what 2.0x superkickstarts do you have?

I'll have to let you know when I dig them up next time.

At least 36.143 and 36.202 I guess, but more?

IIRC, there were between 5 and 7 of them.  I got the idea that the original owner of my A3000UX was involved in some sort of upgrade program from C=.  Interestingly, the first set of SuperKickstart disks consists of a single SuperKickstart disk (1.3) and a piece of paper promising that future SuperKickstarts would include the all new Release 2 which wasn't quite available yet.

[AMC258]

Right.  I don't know about the fastmem, but I have managed to extract the scsi.device from the 3.1 Kickstart (512k).