From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:09:20 -0400
From: Steve Hemminger sch@postman.ncube.com
Subject: floppy boot on Pentium
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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