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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!swbatl!jburnes From: jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444) Subject: Cant Boot Tiny Disk - HELP! Message-ID: <1992Jul21.063243.19239@swbatl.sbc.com> Organization: Southwestern Bell Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 06:32:43 GMT Lines: 39 Hi! I DL'ed rawrite and the dist.fs and fixit.fs to my PC at home. I then put both images on their respective 1.2 meg floppies and booted my system. It read the tiny disk for about 5-10 seconds and rebooted my machine. For the record I have a pretty generic 386 box ( except for the drive controller). AMI BIOS (circa 1990). AMI 386/20 motherboard, 4 meg RAM, 64k cache Orchid ProDesigner Plus VGA Perstor ARRL controller (gives you about 1.9 x MFM) Miniscribe 80meg (ARRL gives you about 150meg) No 387 I've tried disabling video shadow ram to no avail. Has anyone seen this problem? BTW: After rawrite had written the entire fs to disk (apparently without error) I got a "couldnt find address mark" error. Is this a standard message that rawrite burps out? I've crashed and I can't get up.... Thanks in advance, Jim Burnes ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Jim Burnes, jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com | SWBell Advanced Technology Labs ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Truth : the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------