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To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk, "Rob K" <robks@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: Boot floppies
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I've encountered that same strange problem... without trying to understand
it, I always solved it by making the bootup enter the BIOS setup, save it
(without any changes) and exit... reboot and voila! The floppy works fine
then... dunno why.

At 07:38 PM 9.29.2001 +0100, John Murphy wrote:
>"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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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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