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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot Disk
To: polic@radix.net (nate smith)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 15:57:38 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199508212210.SAA16531@saltmine.radix.net> from "nate smith" at Aug 21, 95 06:10:18 pm
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> 
> Ok it lights up twice and then jamms. Nothing happens after that. Once the
> light on the disk drive never went off. I'm thinking that there may be a
> fault in rawrite or boot.flp (i got the update) , when I write boot.flp to a
> NON bad sector disk, err, has no bad sectors, it still says "Bad sector in
> Sector: 1" . I have had this problem with 4 differnet disks but they had bad
> sectors, and when i tried a disk with no bad sectors i still had this
> problem. One other question is do i have to have the files in the floppy
> disks (the bin section) in a /bin directory? thanks.
> nate smith
it would seem to me that if you never get to the 
'Boot:' prompt, then you must either have a machine with a
bad hardware problem, (or a REALLY lousy bios) or the image you are
transferring to the floppy is bad..
where are you getting it from?
from a  CDROM?
from the net?
if the latter, did you remember to set BINARY mode before uploading it?
are you writing the disk onthe same drive you are going to read it from?
they could have diferent allignments..

> 
> >you need to fix the date on your machine..
> >the mail is dated jan13 (I don't know which year)
> >> 
> >> Ok, sorry to not include that. My computer is:
> >> 486 proccessor
> >> 33 megahertz
> >> 8 megs of RAM
> >> 165 meg IDE hd.
> >
> >LOOKS good.
> >> tell me if you need any more information please.
> >> Thanks,
> >> nate smith
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > From:          Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
> >> > Subject:       Re: Boot Disk
> >> > To:            polic@radix.net
> >> > Date:          Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
> >> 
> >> > tell us more about the computer..
> >> > (processor, memory, etc. etc. etc.)
> >> > > 
> >> > > Hi, I made a bootdisk with rawrite and a 5 1/4 floppy (1.2 meg) and 
> >> > > when I loaded up my computer, it tried to access the disk a couple 
> >> > > times and after that froze. I have tried making a bootdisk with 2 
> >> > > different disks and both were formatted. Any help would be 
> >> > > appreciated. Thanks
> >> > > nate smith
> >WHEN did it freeze?
> >
> >
> >show me in the following list?
> >
> >
> >normal operation is:
> >put in floppy
> >hit reset
> >floppy disk light flashes (hear chug chug)
> >get message 
> >	[messages to complicated to remember]
> >	Boot:
> >
> >[hit return key]
> >        kernel starts showing messages..
> >	screen flashes
> >	get messages about all devices found
> >
> >> > > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> 
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