KiskStart image

[blobrana]

Very strange, i certainly haven`t heard about your type of machine...

All the machines a far i was i`m awareall amigas had rom chips (500 and up)

Any photos of the MoBo?

[voxel]

Early A3000s where sold with a special kickstart roms (YES there is one!)
containing kickstart v1.4. These roms are ONLY usable with the A3000 AND Kickstart v1.3 or 2.0!

These type of roms looked for two harddisk partition labeled wb_1.3: and wb_2.x:,
and for a kickstart rom file in the devs: drawer corresponding to the choice you made
on the Boot Screen (v1.3 or v2.x), loaded the rom to ram: and softkicked the A3000 from it.

These rom images where on a SuperKickstart Disk that was part of the Software Kit delivered with the A3000.
Without these Disk, the only possibility to use such an A3000 is buying A3000 v3.1 roms chip and mouting it
in place of the onboard roms chips. But you will lose the possibility to boot v1.3:

Another question? ;-)

[Markus_Bieler]

The first batch of A3000 had indeed both kickstartfiles on the harddisks. C= released the A3000
before AmigaOS 2.0 was ready and stable. So the roms installed were special Kickroms (Kickstart 1.4 with code to softkick from Hardisk).

AND the harddisksname has to match names to identify (AFAIK WB_1.3 + WB_2.0). We had such a A3000
at our anual Clubmeeting directly from C= Switzerland specialy
for presentation. BUT as we are all hackers we put everything apart and after puting back togehter everything
the beast didn't start as expected. Finaly we found out how to start back to normal

@melott

Contact me privatly and I give you some supporting things.

Markus

[iamaboringperson]

like this:

[blobrana]

WoW!...




 :-D

[blobrana]

 ;-)

Hey Melott,

You're not going to like this, but I have one of the 3000's that softkicked, and had 3.1 softkick for the 3000.  Mention, had.  Unfortunately, as I understood you had to have physical 3.1 roms to run OS3.9 I switched to physical roms and no longer have the 3.1 softkick rom.  That said, at least you know you can switch to a 3.1 rom chip set, but of course, the ability to softboot into old versions of the OS is lost.

[melott]

Thanks guys ... :-)

 I got what I needed. A gentleman whom I let remain
 nameless (although I'm sure it was legal) supplied
 me with the correct file.
 Anyway thanks
 Mel Ott