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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: System Died
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.121726.1625@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
References: <1993Apr30.115617.25778@mcs.kent.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 12:17:26 GMT
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In article <1993Apr30.115617.25778@mcs.kent.edu>, gspiegel@mcs.kent.edu (Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg) writes:
|> Just the other day our 386bsd server died.
|> It wouldnt' allow any telnet or ftp sessions and unfortunately, the last kernel
|> I built for it wouldn't allow anyone to use the console keyboard either.
|> So basically, I have to boot off floppy for the time being, right?
|> Wrong. It won't recognize a floppy. I've made up new boot floppies and used
|> the original ones from when I first downloaded everything.
|> Here's what it does: I'll turn the computer off and put a boot floppy in.
|> It'll start up like it's doing just fine but once it looks like
|> it's reading drive A: it switches over to the hard drive and boots
|> from it and I'm back where I started.
|> I've checked all the hardware and nothing is broken.
|>
|> Any Ideas?
|>
|> -Greg
|>
Defective floppy drive or floppy controller?
Does it boot a DOS :-( floppy?
Holger
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