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Subject:
Floppy gone bad
From:
"Gary R. Tennesen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:55:10 -0800
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  Anybody seen this one?

I flashed a BIOS on a 4-year old Pentium board.  The board was seeing my
8.5gb drive as 2.1gb.  After flashing, all 8.5gb are recognized.

Problem is... floppy drive will not boot a Win98 boot disk.  It will boot a
Lilo disk, though.... huh?  I give up.  It's a 3.5" 1.44mb drive and I have
3 to try... all did the same thing... spin, spin, spin, etc.
It's not the 'reversed cable' problem, this is a BIOS thing.

Why can it boot Linux from a floppy and not DOS/Win98?

--gary
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