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- From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Help with A2286 insta
- Message-ID: <Rick_Lang.00s9@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:37:41 PST
- Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
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- SPA> From: sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin)
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- SPA> I recently got an A3000T-040 and an A2286 bridgeboard. I installed
- SPA> the bridgeboard and 5.25": floppy in my system. I then used the
- SPA> Amiga Janus version 2.1 disk to set up the new PC drawer on my
- SPA> ... I then proceeded to try and boot the PC
- SPA> with disk 1/5 of the MS-DOS disks as instructed in the A2286
- SPA> manual addendum. The 5.25" floppy gets accessed, but the PC comes
- SPA> back with a message of:
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- SPA> Boot failure, check disk and hit any key to try again
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- I only have Janus 2.0 but it may be of some help.
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- Do you have the Aboot.ctrl file pointing to your virtual PC disk? This
- file is found in the Work:PC/System drawer.
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- SPA> If so, how do I fix (or delete) the virtual drive
- SPA> to allow it to boot from floppy (at least the first time,
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- If the above answer was "yes", just temporarily rename Aboot.ctrl and
- it won't know about your PC C: drive (that's not going to hel;p you
- configure C: though. Even if C: was bootable, if you have a valid
- bootable MS-DOS system disk in your 5 1/4" floppy drive, the PC side
- should boot from your floppy. Do you have access to a real PC to test
- that you indeed have a valid bootable MS-DOS?
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