BOOTing AMI bios based IBM-PC compatible computer on drive B:

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From: Ben Williams
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:24

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I bought a PC-compatible which has 5.25" drive as A: and 3.5" as B:.  I
used to think that the standard procedure was:  Try to boot from A:.  If
that fails, try B:.  Otherwise boot from C:.  But my computer tries A: and
if that fails, boots from C:.  Is there some way I can boot from B: onto a
3.5" disk.  I imagine there is someway to do it from DOS.  What I would
really like would be if there were some way to do it from a cold boot (but
I am not holding my breath on that...).

Ben.

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Ben Williams
bew@brahms.udel.edu

               What we got here is a failure to communicate...

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Subject: BOOTing AMI bios based IBM-PC compatible computer on drive B:
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