[RULE] Re: My 486 won't boot

[Daniel O'Neill]

I don't think the floppies are the problem as they boot fine on my parents
computers. I couldn't find a reset option in BIOS so I disconnected the
power lead from the battery for about 10 mins..... no effect.
I disconnected the HDD and CDROM drives.... no effect
The computer returns that it can't find the HDD controler and then tries
to boot from floppy and then hangs. I tried another floppy drive I had
lying about from a 386 but that didn't work either.

I have noted two other small anaolomies, the MSD report has two HDD's and
the BIOS has options for both but claims that one isn't installed, which
is OK 'cos I can only find one physical disk. I'm wondering why the report
thinks there's two disks when I can only see one? BTW I probably quoted
450MB from memory and was probably wrong.
   Also is it normal to have two different cable buses? one for the HDD
and CDROM and one for the Floppy drive?

   I can't understand why it doesn't like Linux boot disks when it had no
problem with Windows boot disks.
   Would it be possible to copy the boot image to the hard drive and then
boot from there to get the CDROM working? I also have at my disposal a
Parrallel cable for direct cable connection and a external 2800 modem,
could these be used for network booting? One other idea occoured to me: I
have a 5 1/2" floppy drive and I can (with some difficulty) get some
disks, could I try booting from that or is that just plain barmey?

The mystery continues!

Daniel O'Neill

'You can put a cat in an oven but that doesn't make it a biscuit'




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