One possibility is that the cmos has been set to
do a "quick POST."  (Power on self test.)  If this
is set, then sometimes the hard drive does not
have time to get up to speed before the boot
sequence begins on a cold boot, but is up to
speed when you re-boot warm, so it does work
the second time.  Check your cmos.

Dean Kukral

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cook <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 8:02 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot Up Message


>Hello,
>
>     A customer brought me a Packard Bell Legend 130CD, Pentium 100Mhz.
>computer that just started displaying the following message during boot up:
>
>"Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive"
>
>The customer advised it just recently started doing this.  You can hit the
>reset button or Ctrl-Alt-Delete when the message displays and the computer
>boots normaly.  This happens only during a cold boot.  The bios boot
>sequence is set to boot the floppy first and then hard drive.  I reversed
>this to boot from the hard drive first and got the same message.  The
floppy
>drive, 1.44 MB does work and the computer can be booted from a floppy disk.
>Any ideas?  Thanks
>
>Jim Cook
>Jim's Coomputer Systems
>