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- From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: Re: WB2.1 install disk crashes
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:51:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.185107.23993@zds-oem.zds.com>
- References: <1993Jan4.105808.11661@walter.cray.com>
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- 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 Is there a newer version of the 2.04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.
-
- >Andy Wolff
- >aaw@cray.com
-
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