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In article <1669@fredonia.UUCP> sale5312@fredonia.UUCP (Marty Saletta) writes:
>
>   I've got many disks with accessories, AUTO programs, etc.  Sometimes
>when I boot up with such a floppy (I'd guess about 10% of the time) I
>get the computer loading a few of the accessories, but then doing a
>cold or warm boot in the middle.  It's like someone hitting the reset
>switch during bootup before the GEM Desktop appears.

I went through a phase of that sort of problem, and it turned out to be
being caused by nothing more than a couple of bad sectors on the disk.
The sectors were only marginally bad (misaligned or weak, maybe?) so
they didn't always bite.  You might try looking at that possibility with
a disk-checking program.

A boot disk gets a lot of head travel, and since boot disks tend to be
fairly static and always accessed in the same pattern, it is easy to
believe that you might get one sort or another of physical wear to account
for this.

In any case, I solved my problem by the simple expedient of remaking (on
new disks) all of my boot disks which showed suspicious sectors; and I have
avoided the problem since by making it a practice to run a disk-checker on
my more commonly used boot disks once every couple of months.  Worth a try.
Sure, your problem might be more complicated, but it's easier to check for
the simple possibilities first...

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