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In article <1993Jan27.081250.26310@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, brecht@white.toronto.edu (Tim Brecht) writes:
|> 
|> I've got an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.
|> 
|> I know that this has been asked here before but it hasn't been
|> a problem for me until now. Sorry.
|> 
|> Can someone please tell me how to boot from a diskette in
|> the floppy drive?
|> 
|> I've done this hundreds of times before without any problem but
|> now for some reason I'm not able to boot from the floppy drive
|> that contains the Install/Maintenance diskette nor the Diagnostics
|> Diskette. When I CTRL - ALT - PAUSE the floppy spins for a bit 
|> then stops and eventually the system starts booting from the hard drive.
|> 
|> tim
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Tim Brecht     Dept. of Computer Science     University of Toronto
|> brecht@cs.toronto.edu

I had an RT that was very fussy about booting from the floppy drive.  Usually i'd
try reseating the floppy (i.e. take it out, put it in) .. usually it'd eventually
work.  I eventually decided that the floppy drives would get dirty (there is a
fan nearby to cool the drives, at least on the tower version).  The fact that it
boots from the hard drive means that it doesn't see a bootable floppy in the
drive.  

Hope this is of some help..
-- 
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