**if**  the NIC has a boot PROM installed it will boot from the card
instead of from a disk.

A boot PROM is a complete bootstrap O/S that will connect the PC to the
network so that the PC can finish downloading and boot the O/S from the
network.  This technique allows the MIS department to purchase cheap PCs
because no hard drive or floppy drives are needed.  It is also a form of
security, since without a floppy drive, no one can copy data/programs to
disk and "steal" them.

Since you have both floppy and hard drive, you probably do not have a PROM
on the NIC, but it never hurts to look.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>


>Could you give me a bit more info about why the NIC affect boot? (I
thought
>the computer should load OS first then the NIC, I'm not Novell expert,
does
>Novell NOT need a OS to load NIC?)
>Thanks
>
>J Qian
>
>Jim Meagher wrote:
>
>>
>> The only other reason it will not boot from A is:  the network
interface
>> card has a boot prom installed.  Remove the NIC from the system and it
>> will boot to drive A
>
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