Is there any particular reason that I had to re-register my email address and username again to sign into this support forum and also create the thread I started from scratch? This a link to the original and it says the page cannot be found anymore?
Briefly my issue before was I could not change kickstart in maprom and use left mouse button to bypass the acatool in startup sequence so I had to comment it out manually and change the rom in the tool again. But then encountered the issue of my cf card not loading from cold boot and having to soft reset once the kickstart screen loaded up in order for my CF card to load. I got some advice below.
Jens · Sep 27th 2019, 8:14 am
(Quote from rabidgerry)
Your description sounds like the CF card does not come up fast enough to be seen by the system. This is a decade-old problem of the Amiga and has been semi-solved by cutting the reset line of the IDE port, so the card/harddrive generate their own reset timing and come up a bit faster than when being kept in reset by the Amiga for a slightly longer time.
I call this "semi-solved" because it's not a nice solution. The original Kickstart 3.1 extends the wait-time for mass-storage devices to 30 seconds, giving harddrives plenty of time to spin up. What you may have found online are hacks, maybe not original ROMs. I suggest to go for the real thing instead of downloading from dubious sources: Get yourself the latest version of Kickstart and OS, version 3.1.4 from Hyperion, the official maintainers of the classic Amiga OS.
So the maprom function I am trying with other versions of kickstart and it is not picking them up, do I need to name the kickstart in a specific way for maprom to pickup the rom properly and save it into memory?