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From: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 & changing the Kickstart image at runtime?
Keywords: amiga 3000 kickstart 2.0
Message-ID: <14389@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 90 20:32:57 GMT
References: <3116@rwthinf.UUCP>
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
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Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <3116@rwthinf.UUCP> stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) writes:
>Hi there!
>A nice feature of the A3000 is, that you can load two different Kickstart
>images (1.3 & 2.0) at power up time. But the documentation says nothing about
>changing the Kickstart image at runtime. 
>
>Is there a solution to this problem (e.g. a program) or do I have to switch
>off the A3000 every time when I want to change the Kickstart?
>

If you notice when you boot up the system only recognizes the partition for the
operating system you are currently using. If you boot under 1.3 you have a 
partition called "System1.3" but the partition "System2.0" isn't available at
all and vice-versa. The kickstart images are loaded from your harddrive for 
the time being. And they are located on their respected partitions. So the
answer to your question is no.  As soon as 2.0 is set in stone you will 
receive all of 2.0 in ROM. At that time 1.3 won't be available to you at all.


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