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SRAM Issues
The X68000 has 16KB of battery-backed SRAM, which is used to store basic system settings. Small programs can also be stored in this SRAM. Since it's battery-backed, and since the batteries that shipped in most X68000s are a decade or two past their useable life, this will cause some problems. Symptoms of a dead or dying battery include loss of settings, the Generic Error, and loss of whatever program was stored in the SRAM.
Sometimes the SRAM can get corrupted. This can either be caused by a virus, a dying (but not completely dead) battery, or a sloppily-written program crashing and vomiting all over the SRAM space. If the SRAM is corrupted, you will get this message at boot time instead of a normal “insert disk” screen:
Roughly translated, it reads “Error. Please reset the computer.” You can bypass it by leaving a bootable disk in the drive while resetting. You may or may not need to hold down OPT.1 to boot from floppy.