I don't think you've said if the diskette drive you are booting from is the
5.25" or if it is a 3.5" drive.  In either case, perhaps with this old of a
computer the diskette drive is low-density rather than high density?  I'm
not at all sure how you would be able to tell ...


>From: Raymond Busick <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] System wont boot
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:10:23 -0500
>
>I made a boot disk but system still hangs. Let me walk you thru the
>problem:
>
>Turn the computer on, the disk drive flashes, so I know it is booting from
>Drive a, I get the message
>Diskette drive 1 seek failure, invalid confg info, run setup program
>
>I run the setup program, it says INCORRECT config data in CMOS, setup will
>attemp to correct and auto configure. It does this, cmos files recognize
>all
>drives, etc, everything looks correct . I save, exit, but still wont
>boot...get same message...any ideas?
>
> >
> >
> > Was given a GATEWAY 486/33 in order for me to access 5.25 floppys. Cant
>get
> > the system to boot up, error message reads..." Non system disk", it
>thens
> > jumps to BIOS setup, all settings are correct. I save and reboot but get
> > same error message...I thought it would boot with a DOS SETUP disk or
>maybe
> > WINDOWS setup disk, thinking it had no OS installed. Still no luck..is
>there
> > a particular type of boot disk I need that is unique to GATEWAY to boot
>up
> > this system?

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