HELP! computer won't boot off floppy

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From: Simon Chin
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00

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Tonight I took out my old 200MB hard drive and put in
an 850 MB hard drive, and I also took out
my 1.2MB floppy drive. I left my 1.44MB drive in.

I tried to boot linux off my linux boot disk.
The first bit loaded ok, and then it prompted
for the root disk. I put it in and then I got
this error message 
"perpendicular drive not supported FDC"

or something like that.  

anyone know what's wrong?? 
My floppy drive is sideways, but I've never
had trouble with it before. I've booted off linux
floppy tons of times.

DOS isn't having any trouble with the floppy drive.


any help appreciated


-- Simon (simc@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)

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From: simc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Simon Chin)
Subject: HELP! computer won't boot off floppy
Date: 1996/06/28
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