Re: Boot Issues


Subject: Re: Boot Issues
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 18:10:20 AKDT


On Saturday 13 July 2002 05:34 pm, Adam Elkins wrote:
> I have a pentium board here.....When I tell it to boot from cd first, it
> always says "Boot Disk Failure", It won't seek the floppy either. NOw,
> if I tell it not to boot from cd, it boots directly from the HDD, and
> still no floppy seek. Any ideas?
>
> Adam
>
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Check the BIOS options for bootup floppy seek and for floppy drive switch,
and of course look at the cables. An upside down cable connection would
likely do exactly that.

Civileme

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