Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!hoptoad!peora!rtmvax!bilver!alj From: alj@bilver.UUCP (arthur johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Crashing all the way to Kickstart Summary: Why it does so. Keywords: kickstart checksum Message-ID: <402@bilver.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 89 22:41:15 GMT References: <2215@van-bc.UUCP> Reply-To: alj@bilver.UUCP (arthur johnson) Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL Lines: 17 When KickStart is initially loaded into the machine, the Amiga does NOT check to see if the checksum is correct. It does do this whenever you warmboot. Therefore, you can happily boot with a KickStart that the Amiga will later choke on. If you modify KickStart in any way (like patching for noclicking, or KickFont, etc.), you MUST re-do the KickStart checksum stored on the disk. There are programs (sumkick) out there that do this. Otherwise, you will run into the warmboot, guru med, etc. problems of 'Insert KickStart'. -- Arthur Johnson Jr. -=> {uiucuxc, hoptoad, petsd}!peora!rtmvax!bilver!alj -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=> alj@bilver.UUCP -=> PLink: DUNG -=> GEnie: A.JOHNSONJR