jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) (01/16/91)
A guy in my office here has just purchased a new 3000 in the us. He was unfamiliar with the Amiga and bought it on my reccomendation. He was going through the manual and trying things out when, after about 30 minutes, the system locked up with an error message saying "Kickstart read error". Subsequent attempts to boot off floppies have not been successful. Any ideas out there? He has V2.0 of the OS (I think). I have NOT seen his system yet so cannot confirm the accuracy of the error message but whatever it says is NOT documented in the manuals he has with the system. Thanks all -- Jim Sanchez | jim@syteke.be (PREFERRED) Hughes LAN Systems | OR uunet!mcsun!ub4b!syteke!jim Brussels Belgium | OR jim@hls.com
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (01/17/91)
In article <1766@syteke.be> jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) writes: >He was going through the manual and trying things out when, after >about 30 minutes, the system locked up with an error message saying >"Kickstart read error". Subsequent attempts to boot off floppies >have not been successful. Any ideas out there? Boot using the SuperKickStart disk with the system. He has to cold boot (from power off). You can also select which OS to boot and where to load it from by holding down both mouse buttons when you turn on the machine. Once he's loaded the OS off floppy, it will want a floppy workbench to boot off. Put in the A3000 Install disk, and re-install the harddisk (there should be instructions on this in the manual - it's pretty easy). I suspect he deleted or renamed or somesuch his devs:kickstart file on the WB_2.x: partition (it reads that at power-up by default to load the OS). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)