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- From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WB2.1 install disk crashes
- Message-ID: <38753@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:24:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan04.185107.23993@zds-oem.zds.com> <1993Jan5.123157.24363@walter.cray.com>
- Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1993Jan5.123157.24363@walter.cray.com> aaw@cray.com writes:
- >In article 23993@zds-oem.zds.com, easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan4.105808.11661@walter.cray.com> aaw@cray.com writes:
- >>>Has anyone besides me had this problem? I just installed the WB2.1 upgrade on my
- >>>A3000 which still uses the "superkickstart" (non-ROM). I found that booting off the
- >>>install disk (which is required to perform the installation) always crashed the
- >>>machine with a software error. I eventually discovered that the SetPatch program
- >>>on the install disk was the cause. After replacing it with the old 2.04 version of
- >>>SetPatch I was able to complete the installation. The dealer who sold me the upgrade
- >>>said they hadn't seen this problem before. Is there a newer version of the 2.04
- >>>kickstart than the one I have (which came directly from C=)?
- >>
- >> I have an A3000/16 with soft kicked ROM's. I installed the 2.1 upgrade
- >>right after Thanksgiving and it went smoothly. I did exactly what you did,
- >>booted the install disk.
- >>
- >> How old is your A3000? A wild guess is that if you have the older
- >>"roms in a tower" version, the boot roms might be different than mine.
- >>
- >
- >I suppose my A3000 is relatively old; I bought it back when they had the "power up"
- >deal from the 2000/2500 to A3000. I haven't done much poking around inside it except
- >to install some extra RAM, but since I most likely have the same 2.04 kickstart as
- >everybody else I guess the boot ROM could be the culprit. I'm curious if anyone knows
- >what the mysterious undocumented SetPatch does. I noticed that the 2.1 version is
- >considerably larger than the old one.
- >
-
- Your problem is most likely that you have mixed static column ram with
- non-static column-ram, a configuration which does not work. Such a configuration
- will crash when the data cache is turned on, which setpatch does.
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