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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 2090A problem
Message-ID: <oXefiHy00VsNEE8nlw@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 88 19:54:59 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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I just got a 2090A.  The system won't boot with it plugged into the
bus (power led blinks, medium-grey screen, disk led connected to J5 is
on steadily).  But looking at the addendum (diffs of the 2090A from
the 2090), it said that the autoboot roms will mess up with 1.2
kickstart roms (which I have).  So I removed the two rom chips that
the addendum specifies as the autoboot roms, and tried again.  Still
won't boot.  Then I remove the disk led wire from J5; now it boots
from floppy.  But prep (after waiting about 7 minutes!) just says
"Drive not PREPed" (great error messages here).  Thinking that maybe
it was the disk led in the first place, I put the roms back in.
System won't boot.

So...  Is my 2090A totally non-functional?  Will it not work at all
without 1.3 kickstart roms?  Help!

Thanks, -Miles