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From: gspiegel@mcs.kent.edu (Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg)
Subject: System Died
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 11:56:17 GMT
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Just the other day our 386bsd server died.
It wouldnt' allow any telnet or ftp sessions and unfortunately, the last kernel
I built for it wouldn't allow anyone to use the console keyboard either.
So basically, I have to boot off floppy for the time being, right?
Wrong.  It won't recognize a floppy.  I've made up new boot floppies and used
the original ones from when I first downloaded everything.
Here's what it does:  I'll turn the computer off and put a boot floppy in.
	It'll start up like it's doing just fine but once it looks like
	it's reading drive A: it switches over to the hard drive and boots
	from it and I'm back where I started.
I've checked all the hardware and nothing is broken.

Any Ideas?

-Greg