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From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Rob K" <robks@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: Boot floppies
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 19:38:24 +0100
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"Rob K" <robks@eircom.net> wrote:

>I have changed my BIOS boot order to CD,
>Floppy then hard drive but when I insert the KERN.FLP disk to boot the
>computer and turn on the power the computer stops after a few seconds.

Try making the boot order Floppy first perhaps.

Can you boot from a bootable DOS floppy?

John.

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