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#! rnews 1282 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news.microsoft.com!news From: "Alex Wetmore" <alex@phred.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot! Date: 5 Dec 1996 16:44:31 GMT Organization: Microsoft Corp. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <01bbe2cb$93caa3b0$adb31fac@awetmore1> References: <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.31.179.173 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32125 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4950 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1180 It sounds like you either have a defective floppy drive or your BIOS is configured to boot from the hard disk first. Can you boot DOS (or OS/2) from it? alex h25.schuyler@ wrote in article <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu>... > Hello. I have a Pentium 150 w/an Endeavor II motherboard and a 1 GB EIDE HDD. > I got boot floppies for a variety of flavors of Unix, including Linux, NetBSD, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and AIX. None of the floppies would boot.