Re: Booting from floppy

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"Larry" wrote:
| Installed Win2K Pro, dual booting Linux, and I was trying to to set up a
| floppy for BIOS flash. It seems the machine will not boot into DOS from
| a floppy or CDROM as long as the HDD is connected. It reads a few tracks
| from the floppy, then the HDD access LED flashes, and the FDD just quits
| doing anything. OTOH, it will boot up from the Win2K boot floppies.
|
| I suppose this is a Win2K "feature", as using a different HDD with
| ME/Linux installed will allow booting DOS from the FDD/CDROM.
|
| Of course I can flash the BIOS w/o a HDD, so this is mostly to satisfy
| my curiosity.
|
| Thanks,
| Larry


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