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[robrh]

Hi everyone, I am a longtime Amiga user. I have a couple of Amiga's that I have gotten out of storage and are just trying to use again.

I am trying to boot up my Amiga 2000, and it is asking me to insert a kickstart 2.0 (37.175) disk.

I know that all of the Kickstart roms are available on the internet, and I have the kickstart 2.0 roms in an .adf format but on my Windows machine.

My problem is that I can't figure out how to make an Amiga format disk and transfer the adf files onto a 3 1/2 so that it would work on my Amiga.

Another huge problem is that since my Amiga's were pretty much pre- internet day models. I have no way to connect them to the internet to be able to download the ROMS directly.

I do have WINUAE installed on my windows machine, is there some way that I can write the kickstart rom disk to my 3 1/2 on my windows machine so it would work on my Amiga?

Surely many people have encounteed this problem before of how to get this wealth of .adf files available on the internet onto a machine that has no internet access.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Thomas]

I never heard of an A2000 which needs a Kickstart disk. The only Amiga models which were delivered without a Kickstart ROM were the A1000 and the A3000.

Are you sure you aren't looking at this screen: http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/images/wb_204k.gif

This does not ask for a Kickstart disk but it tells you that there is a Kickstart ROM version 37.175 inside and it asks for a boot disk (a.k.a. Workbench disk).

Unfortunately you cannot write Amiga floppy disks using another computer unless you have some special hardware like this: http://www.jschoenfeld.de/products/catweasel_e.htm
or this: http://www.kryoflux.com/

[dreamcast270mhz]

Maybe a user here will sell you a disk

[arttu80]

Originally Posted by robrh

Hi everyone, I am a longtime Amiga user.

Your problem seems like "long time, no Amiga" user syndrom. By which I mean you probably forgot everything about using floppy equipped Amiga. As previously stated, you should insert just about ANY bootable disk in your upgraded 2.04 kickstart machine and it will boot. Just try some game floppys for example. So no kickstart disk in your case.

[robrh]

Apparently it was asking me for a workbench disk. Strange, I have two hard drives in this A2000, I thought it was supposed to load the workbench off of my hard drive.

I load workbench and it comes up to the normal Amiga desktop. It shows my floppy workbench disk and a RAM disk, but no hard drives. Any idea what could be wrong?

I have tried re seating my connections to no avail...

Thanks everyone...

[Thomas]

load workbench and it comes up to the normal Amiga desktop. It shows my floppy workbench disk and a RAM disk, but no hard drives. Any idea what could be wrong?

HDD died. Controller died. Contoller sitting loosely. Cables sitting loosely. Powersupply becoming weak.

[AmigaPixel]

Originally Posted by utri007

Thomas already wrote: HDD died. Controller died. Contoller sitting loosely. Cables sitting loosely. Powersupply becoming weak.

What roms you have? Do you have hd instaldisks?? After you have checked that everything is sitting nicely, insert hd install disk and check does it found hd

I am leaning towards a dying power supply. (20+ years old after all!) And if you live in a city or town that has dirty power source like I do, it is bound to soon! Even with surge protection. I used to use hospital grade surge protection with the A2000.

My A2000 is no longer finishing the boot up from the HDD. I concluded it to be the PSU from process of elimination, since I do not have multi-meter. Up until a few weeks ago it booted up fine. Then the next time only after I unplugged the power to the cd-rom drive. Now it only boots to a partial HDD boot even with the disconnected power cable to the CD-rom. I could next remove the old Supra ram expansion card and see if it completes the HD boot.

Otherwise what Thomas said are the other logical possibilities