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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!news.cc.sunysb.edu!cshapiro From: cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot! Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 6 Dec 1996 03:17:16 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 18 Message-ID: <58837s$m4l@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> References: <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu> <01bbe2cb$93caa3b0$adb31fac@awetmore1> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cc.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32216 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4958 Alex Wetmore (alex@phred.org) wrote: : 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? Sounds more like the drive boot order is something like C: -> A: instead of A: -> C: This drove me nuts when I was trying to install NetBSD on a bunch of Dell "OptiPlex" machines (I was not aware of such a BIOS feature, doh). : > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and AIX. None of the floppies would boot. ^^^ Somehow I find that *REALLY* hard to belive... Carl