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From: Steve Hemminger sch@postman.ncube.com
Subject: floppy boot on Pentium
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:09:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950815150920.5KYduAOOrzIS5N5SyGnF6hNeWOZz9ekI8cKFDtUI3Ww@z> (raw)

Booting directly from floppy (like the 1st disk of the 4 disk set)
does not work on our Pentium PC's when they are running at full speed.

It gets part way through the load and fails with "premature EOF"
(fails at different point every time).

It does work if:
	- turn off cache (in BIOS) 
	- or set clock rate to 25Mhz
	- or boot DOS then run b

Looks like the boot block program is not setting up something
related to the floppy controller (or has a silly spin loop).

-sch






             reply	other threads:[~1995-08-15 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-08-15 15:09 Steve [this message]
1995-08-15 21:13 jmk
1995-08-15 23:38 Boyd

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