+eebuckeye Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I have three Amiga 1000's but no kickstart disk... ugh... I tried to make multiple kickstart disks by using a kickstart1.3.adf (with tsgui) and an unencrypted kickstart1.3.rom with writekickdisk. I have tried multiple disks and multiple floppy drives. All of the 1000 systems start to boot with normal drive sounds and then go back to kickstart. It seems like the disk I make is not bootable. I really do not think all three drives are bad on the 1000 systems so I'm sure I am doing something wrong. I am making the disks from my Amiga 1200. Any ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Highly doubtful all three drives are bad. Not like we're talking ST's here. I can send you a good Kickstart disk. PM me with your info... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiv Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I think I just used transwarp (serial to disk write) to create some of mine (or just disk copy)... Where are you at? I could send you one I know works. desiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Exactly.. Which is why I can't figure out what is going on. Ugh.. Making a real floppy from adf is easy!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Will pm you desiv.. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Exactly.. Which is why I can't figure out what is going on. Ugh.. Making a real floppy from adf is easy!? adf2disk found on Aminet is all you need. drop that in your C directory and invoke it by simply typing adf2disk filename.adf in a shell. That's after you get Workbench up and running and transfer the downloaded file to it of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 I tried that with my 1200 and the disk seems to create ok but kickstart will not boot.. Ugh.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 I use the SFS file system on my Amiga 1200.. is it possible it is formatting the floppy disk with SFS so the Amiga 1000 can not read it? I have no idea if the SFS would follow to a floppy. Just trying to understand what the heck is going on!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Shouldn't matter, but you could try creating the disk under FFS for the hell of it. Oh and make sure you're using DSDD disks, not high density. Some drives are picky that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Tried all the above.. I'm clueless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Kickstart image might be corrupt if the drives are good? You have access to another dump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 I tried the kickstart adf with winuae amiga 1000 and it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 I tried making the disk one more time and then a fourth Amiga 1000. It booted to workbench so I was amazed. I tried the other three now and only one does not boot with it. I'm thinking maybe the drives were dirty until I tried many disks but I really have no idea. Very happy though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Cool! So yeah, maybe try cleaning the heads in the drive I guess. I've experienced bad luck with a tainted (moldy) disc before where it contaminated drives. Wouldn't read or otherwise had errors until I cleaned the drives again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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