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From: tif@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Problems with booting
Message-ID: <6800069@cpe>
Date: 20 Jan 89 14:19:00 GMT
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Written  8:21 am  Jan 19, 1989 by killer.UUCP!tony in cpe:comp.unix.xenix
>The boot prompt is displayed but will not display any character or accept
><enter> to load xenix.  If you keep typing it will fill its buffer and
>sound the bell.  The autoboot did not work either.

The boot track on the hard drive.  There is probably some point in the
installation that you could have hit delete and the boot track would
have been fixed and your data intact.

Or you probably could have done:

	dd if=/etc/hdboot0 of=/dev/hd0a

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
			{killer | texbell}!cpe!tif