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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disabling floppy boot
Message-ID: <586@bucket.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 17:29:21 EST
Article-I.D.: bucket.586
Posted: Sun Nov  8 17:29:21 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:06:21 EST
References: <3543@uw-june.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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Well, we have a Nestar LAN. Somehow the ROM on the network card disables
the floppy boot. If the network connection is ok, the system will boot
of the network even if there is a disk in drive A:.

Since the "LAN" looks like a bunch of hard disks to the PC, I'd guess that
it is using the "hard disk ROM" POST to skip over part of the normal POST.

I do know that no modifications of the pc are required. You just drop in
the network card. So what you want _is_ possible.

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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."