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- From: jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Cant Boot Tiny Disk - HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.063243.19239@swbatl.sbc.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:32:43 GMT
- Organization: Southwestern Bell
- Lines: 39
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- Hi!
-
- I DL'ed rawrite and the dist.fs and fixit.fs to my PC at home. I
- then put both images on their respective 1.2 meg floppies and booted
- my system.
-
- It read the tiny disk for about 5-10 seconds and rebooted my machine.
- For the record I have a pretty generic 386 box ( except for the
- drive controller).
-
- AMI BIOS (circa 1990).
- AMI 386/20 motherboard, 4 meg RAM, 64k cache
- Orchid ProDesigner Plus VGA
- Perstor ARRL controller (gives you about 1.9 x MFM)
- Miniscribe 80meg (ARRL gives you about 150meg)
- No 387
-
- I've tried disabling video shadow ram to no avail.
-
-
- Has anyone seen this problem?
- BTW: After rawrite had written the entire fs to disk (apparently
- without error) I got a "couldnt find address mark" error. Is
- this a standard message that rawrite burps out?
-
- I've crashed and I can't get up....
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Jim Burnes
-
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