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From: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: unix pc won't boot without floppy in drive
Message-ID: <586@mtune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 20:12:53 EST
Article-I.D.: mtune.586
Posted: Tue Apr  8 20:12:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Apr-86 03:03:34 EST
References: <360@houligan.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
Lines: 15
Keywords: bug, not-yet-fixed
Summary:  Leave floppy in drive

This is a known problem. It is a bad interaction between the loader
and the hard disc controller chip. Fortunately it only happens after
powering the machine on, not on reboot. It will reboot eventually, it
just takes a long time. For the time being, leave a blank floppy in
the drive.

As for the manual, *I'm* not going to tell you not to buy it. I'm
just going to point out that internal details of the unix pc are
company confidential, available under non-disclosure only (and even
that is not available to everybody).
-- 
Jonathan Clark
[NAC]!mtune!jhc

My walk has become rather more silly lately.