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From: ewv@craycos.com (Eric Varsanyi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: HELP: Can boot UNIX from HD, CANNOT Boot DOS from Floppy
Keywords: DOS, Disk Boot Error
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.234610.2663@craycos.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 23:46:10 GMT
References: <2140@abcom.ATT.COM> <1990Aug27.230924.14014@virtech.uucp> <96@towers.UUCP>
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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In article <96@towers.UUCP> robert@towers.UUCP (Robert Hoquim) writes:
>
>I have even seen instances of under the AMI bios you need to take power off
>the cmos (external batt. or onboard nicad) and let it discharge before you
>can unscramble the cmos setup.  
>

On the newer AMI revisions you can hold down <INS> while booting and CMOS
is ignored. The leaves you with (conservative) parameters and usually gets
things running.

-Eric Varsanyi
 Cray Computer Corporation
 ewv@craycos.com
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-Eric Varsanyi (ewv@craycos.com)        Cray Computer Corporation