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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: mn.general,umn.comp.sys.ibm
- Subject: Re: IBM(clone) fails to boot from 3.5"
- Message-ID: <V61wPB2w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 11:04:18 CDT
- References: <1992Aug19.171052.25310@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- scott@pascal.geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) writes:
-
- > I've got an IBM clone (Altos 386/500) which has an original 5.25" and
- > an added 3.5" (720/1.44 Teac FD-235HF). It will boot nicely from the
- > 5.25 or the internal hard drive, but seems to ignore a bootable 1.44MB
- > floppy in the 3.5" drive.
-
- This might be too obvious, but....
-
- Is your 3.5" drive set as drive B?
-
- I can't remember seeing a PC that would boot from B:. Only A: and C:.
-
- > It appears to be quite happy to read or write
- > floppies of either density in the drive and peeks at it but doesn't boot
- > from a bootable one when I warm boot.
-
- That peek is just the BIOS looking for a drive in that position, not
- looking for a boot image.
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