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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.texoma.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!fiction!colwyn!not-for-mail From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) 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: 8 Dec 1996 21:39:20 +0100 Organization: Privates Internet Ost-Westfalen-Lippe Lines: 14 Message-ID: <58f91o$me4@colwyn.owl.de> References: <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyssa.owl.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32313 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4966 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1184 In article <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu>, h25.schuyler@ writes: > In every case, the computer would look in the floppy drive for a > bootable disk, and then give up and try to boot my hard disk, ... You are sure that the BIOS is configured to boot from floppy? Has it a Virus check? If it has disable it. And of course the floppy itself could be the problem. You should check the cables and if it doesn't help exchange the floppy. -- Matthias Scheler tron@lyssa.owl.de