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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!salliemae!uunet!in2.uu.net!spcuna!news.columbia.edu!lamont!ss6 From: mattc@ssnet.com (Matthew Chiglinsky) Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy install Message-ID: <3ujso0$ftc_001@ss6.ssnet.com> Sender: news@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Humanity X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 References: <3u4l81$bss@news1.mnsinc.com> <3u4uo7$5fh@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:16:54 GMT Lines: 18 In article <3u4l81$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.