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Re: Disk boot failure



On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
> > 
> > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL when booting) and make sure that the
> > boot sequence (can't remember the exact name and I don't want to
> > reboot right now!) is set to A:, C:. Then you should be able to boot
> > from a boot floppy.
> Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is
> not the problem.

Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy?  I'm all out of
clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is
out of town.

I assume you've tried booting with the rescue disk (the install
floppy)?

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