On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Russ Poffenberger wrote:

> David Gillett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On 26 Feb 98 at 2:00, michael wrote:
> >   There should be a setting in the BIOS for drive boot order.  If
> > this is set to "C:,A:", then the only time the machine will ever boot
> > from a floppy is if it doesn't find an active partition on the first
> > hard drive.  Switch it to "A:,C:"; it will take a couple seconds
> > longer to boot, but you'll be sure of being able to boot from a
> > floppy when you need to.
>
> On the other hand, leaving it as "C:,A:" prevents you from infecting your system
> with an MBR virus by accidentally leaving an infected floppy in and trying to
> boot from it.
>
> If you rarely boot from floppy, it is best IMHO to leave it it as "C:,A:", and
> change when necessary in the CMOS to boot from floppy.

Not to mention avoiding the annoyance of getting a "Non system or boot disk"
type of error anytime you reboot but forget to eject the floppy...

-JOWj.
John Wilson
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