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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.erg.cuhk.hk!usenet From: CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy install Date: 17 Jul 1995 03:27:46 GMT Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK Lines: 54 Message-ID: <3uclbi$icv@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> References: <3u4l81$bss@news1.mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc16.cs.cuhk.hk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------19448088887211559851574749942" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3C sun4m) X-URL: news:3u4l81$bss@news1.mnsinc.com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------19448088887211559851574749942 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To enter the bios setup to see if the booting sequence of your system. Change it to A: C: if it is not. Insert your boot diskette and try again. Clarence CHAN clarence@cs.cuhk.hk abbadon@mnsinc.com (Abbadon) wrote: >I used the image from 2.0.5. I used rawrite to put it on a disk but when >I I try to boot from it my computer seems to read the disk for a second >and then boots from the dos partition on the hard drive anyway. I have a >486DX/50 with 16MB Ram and a 340 MB Hard drive broken up into two >partitions. A 120 MB DOS partition and the rest I created with FIPS. I >tried it with the Linux boot image as well and got the same results so I >know either I am doing something wrong or my hardware is hosed. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Abbadon@mnsinc.com > ---------------------------------19448088887211559851574749942 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain From: abbadon@mnsinc.com (Abbadon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Can't boot from floppy install Date: 14 Jul 1995 02:36:48 GMT Organization: Monumental Network Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3u4l81$bss@news1.mnsinc.com> I used the image from 2.0.5. I used rawrite to put it on a disk but when I I try to boot from it my computer seems to read the disk for a second and then boots from the dos partition on the hard drive anyway. I have a 486DX/50 with 16MB Ram and a 340 MB Hard drive broken up into two partitions. A 120 MB DOS partition and the rest I created with FIPS. I tried it with the Linux boot image as well and got the same results so I know either I am doing something wrong or my hardware is hosed. Any help would be appreciated. Abbadon@mnsinc.com ---------------------------------19448088887211559851574749942--