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From: mattc@ssnet.com (Matthew Chiglinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy install
Date: 19 Jul 1995 21:20:44 GMT
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In article <3u4l81$bss@news1.mnsinc.com>, Abbadon <abbadon@mnsinc.com> 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
That sounds like what happens when you have the boot priority of C:
set about A:. Switch them around. Your system isn't even trying to boot from
the disk. If it had, then it would have either booted it or reported a bad
disk. It wouldn't skip to the hard drive. Set your boot sequence to A: THEN
C:
>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.
The same thing should have happened no matter what disk you tried.
Change the boot priority order.
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