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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Install stuck on Disk 2, any clues?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.234822.11288@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:48:22 GMT
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- In article <BtyFFr.4E0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman) writes:
- >Hello all, I'm trying to install OS/2 2.0 on a new machine here at work.
- >It's a clone mothrboard, with AMD bios, and an AMD 40 MHz processor. The
- >installation starts normally, with the exception of mangled text at the
- >bottom of the initial blue screen. I get as far as fdisk, where I can
- >partition, set up boot manager etc. When I've finished that, I get prompted
- >for Disk 2, Hit Enter. When the enter key is pressed, the machine beeps, the
- >disk light comes on for about 2 seconds, and I'm back at the same prompt.
- >This can be repeated indefinitely. Anybody have a fix or a workaround for
- >this?
-
- It sounds like the disk change line on your disk drive is not working
- correctly. Often a jumper or DIP switch on the drive itself will
- allow/disallow disk change -- check this setting.
-
- You might want to check with the helpful people in
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware for details.
-
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