Re: IBM(clone) fails to boot from 3.5"

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:04

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scott@pascal.geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) writes:

>   I've got an IBM clone (Altos 386/500) which has an original 5.25" and
> an added 3.5" (720/1.44 Teac FD-235HF).  It will boot nicely from the
> 5.25 or the internal hard drive, but seems to ignore a bootable 1.44MB
> floppy in the 3.5" drive.

This might be too obvious, but....

Is your 3.5" drive set as drive B?

I can't remember seeing a PC that would boot from B:. Only A: and C:.

> It appears to be quite happy to read or write
> floppies of either density in the drive and peeks at it but doesn't boot
> from a bootable one when I warm boot.

That peek is just the BIOS looking for a drive in that position, not
looking for a boot image.
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