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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New A1000 kickstart question
Message-ID: <14215@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 14:40:40 GMT
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Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
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In article <14138.26d4fefc@qut.edu.au> inb300campbe@qut.edu.au writes:
>
> It is now successfully running as a kickstart, but it took me a long
> time to figure out that sector $201 on the kickstart disk must
> remain identical to the normal kickstart disk.  Sector $201 maps
> to location $ffff00.
>
> What is the significance of the page of memory at $ffff00?  Are there
> some sort of control locations there?  It isn't code anyway!

Indeed there is some data there crucial to the startup process. The length
of the kickstart can quickly be recognized for example. Leaving the last 40 or
so bytes intact should solve your problem.

Valentin
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