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From: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help - Can't boot non-DOS floppies with HD intstalled.
Message-ID: <3189@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 90 08:28:42 GMT
Reply-To: ed@iitmax.iit.edu (Ed Federmeyer)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
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I have a Seagate ST412/RLL controller and drive package.  (That is an ST11R
RLL controller and a ST238R hard disk.)  For some strange reason, not mentioned
in the instructions, it does not want to boot from the floppy drive (360K drive
A:) if the disk is non-DOS... In other words, I can't boot Marble Madness or
MINIX from the floppy.  I get a "Disk boot failure- press any key to retry."
message.  If I remove the controller and hard drive, everything boots like
normal from the floppy, but when I put the controler & HD back in, the only
thing that will boot from the floppy is DOS.  Does anyone else have this
configuration, and know a way around this?  Why does this happen, and why would
Seagate mke a controller like that?

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