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- From: aaw@cray.com (Andy Wolff)
- Subject: Re: WB2.1 install disk crashes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.123157.24363@walter.cray.com>
- Lines: 43
- Nntp-Posting-Host: twopegman.cray.com
- Reply-To: aaw@cray.com
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan04.185107.23993@zds-oem.zds.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:31:56 CST
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- 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 Is there a newer version of the 2.04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.
- >
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- 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.
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- >
- >--
- > ___ ___ Jeff Easton easton@zds-oem.zds.com
- > (__ (__ Zenith Data Systems j.easton@mi04.zds.com
- > ___) ___) Saint Joseph, Mich. easton@andrews.edu
- >
- >Monte Carlo Z-LS/20 - Choice of a quiet generation
- >
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- Andy Wolff
- aaw@cray.com
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