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- From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
- Subject: Re: Booting Maint. Diskette
- Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.165957.33587@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:59:57 GMT
- Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
- References: <1993Jan27.081250.26310@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: IBM Kingston NY
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- In article <1993Jan27.081250.26310@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, brecht@white.toronto.edu (Tim Brecht) writes:
- |>
- |> I've got an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.
- |>
- |> I know that this has been asked here before but it hasn't been
- |> a problem for me until now. Sorry.
- |>
- |> Can someone please tell me how to boot from a diskette in
- |> the floppy drive?
- |>
- |> I've done this hundreds of times before without any problem but
- |> now for some reason I'm not able to boot from the floppy drive
- |> that contains the Install/Maintenance diskette nor the Diagnostics
- |> Diskette. When I CTRL - ALT - PAUSE the floppy spins for a bit
- |> then stops and eventually the system starts booting from the hard drive.
- |>
- |> tim
- |> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Tim Brecht Dept. of Computer Science University of Toronto
- |> brecht@cs.toronto.edu
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- I had an RT that was very fussy about booting from the floppy drive. Usually i'd
- try reseating the floppy (i.e. take it out, put it in) .. usually it'd eventually
- work. I eventually decided that the floppy drives would get dirty (there is a
- fan nearby to cool the drives, at least on the tower version). The fact that it
- boots from the hard drive means that it doesn't see a bootable floppy in the
- drive.
-
- Hope this is of some help..
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- Michael Phelps, (external) mjp@vnet.ibm.com ..
- (internal) mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com .. mjp at kgnvmy
- (and last but not least a disclaimer) These opinions are mine..
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