| From: | Audie A. Smith |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 11:03:02 |
| Subject: | Re: AOS35: Re: Lost kickstart rom, A2000. (was: *No Kickstart chip* ) |
I understand that an A2000 thousand has 1 - 3.1 ROM chip. However, I
attempted a clean format with 1 - 3.1 ROM chip in my system, tried to
reinstall the OS, the system indicated that I needed to a 3.1 ROM chip
in my system. Being that I did already have a 3.1 ROM chip in my system
(for over 5 years), I continued with the install and then rebooted. The
insert kickstart image appeared the first time. The second time, all I
would just get a black screen. I obtained a second ROM chip which I
used to replace the first, everthing was fine until I improperly
installed an incorrect library which I then attempted to correct with
another reformat. Then the problem with the kickstart image re-surfaced
with the second chip. I am aware that under normal circumstances, the
ROM chip should not be affected. I have reformatted under 3.1 over a
thousand times before without this strange situation ever happening.
That is why I find this perplexing.
Michael Bourne wrote:
> On 24-Oct-00, Audie A. Smith wrote:
>
> > OS3.5 apparently erased 2 of my 3.1 rom chips for my A2000
> > when I tried a reformat of my boot partition. is there any
> > way to recover from this?
>
> An A2000 has only one ROM IC and by definition cannot be
> "erased". The code is permanently "burnt" into the the IC
> unlike eproms and eeproms which are reprogramable.
>
> Possibly you are speaking of a softkick "romfile" saved
> to hard disk? If this is the case then you can recover by
> renewing the romfile from it's original source...
>
> 3.1 ROMs for the A2000 are currently available from many
> Amiga dealers world-wide.
>
> --
>
> Michael
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