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From: "Alex Wetmore" <alex@phred.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't boot!
Date: 5 Dec 1996 16:44:31 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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It sounds like you either have a defective floppy drive or your BIOS is
configured to boot from the hard disk first.  Can you boot DOS (or OS/2)
from it?

alex

h25.schuyler@ wrote in article <584r9t$8gr@rebecca.albany.edu>...
> Hello.  I have a Pentium 150 w/an Endeavor II motherboard and a 1 GB EIDE
HDD.
> I got boot floppies for a variety of flavors of Unix, including Linux,
NetBSD,
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and AIX.  None of the floppies would boot.