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From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
Subject: Re: Unable to boot from latest SNAP boot floppy
Organization: 1 Bagshot Row, the Shire
Message-ID: <DCGM6B.16M@bagend.atl.ga.us>
References: <shamrock-2607952156320001@192.0.2.1>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 04:08:35 GMT
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In article <shamrock-2607952156320001@192.0.2.1>,
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>I copied the latest SNAP boot.flp to a 1.2MB disk using rawrite3.
>My machine will not boot from that floppy. It will attempt to boot from
>drive a: and, upon failure, boot from drive c: . I know this sounds weird,
>but that what it does.

What about the rest of your hardware ... how much RAM do you have?
I believe that you need at least 4MB of RAM to boot.