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From: marc@cpsc.UCalgary.CA (Marc Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: booting from floppy
Keywords: boot, hard-drive, ICD
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Date: 14 Dec 89 03:54:19 GMT
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In article <101870@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> parker@vlsic2 (James Parker) writes:
>
>Boot from floppy with ICDBOOT software
>
>I am having a problem trying to boot from the floppy disk while 
>using the latest (at least I think the latest, less than 2 mths old)
>ICDBOOT software with my hard drive.
>
>According to the manual, if I depress Ctrl/Shift/Alt while booting, the
>computer will boot from the floppy instead of autobooting from the
>hard-drive.  I have a copy of ICDBOOT.prg in A:\AUTO folder but not in
>C:\AUTO as instructed in the docs.

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Hmm.. My manual says to hold down [ALT] when trying to boot from floppy
(press it and hold it down until the drive light stays on).

 
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