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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 Prob - Cannot Read Kickstart
Message-ID: <17705@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 07:15:16 GMT
References: <1766@syteke.be>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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.
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