Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:43:16 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB]Solved?: SERIOUS boot problems with EZBios!
>Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:29:32 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In a message dated 2/17/2002 1:34:03 PM Mountain Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Previous to this whole debacle, I had booted to a floppy, and re- > > formatted > > the current active partition from the floppy in order to install a > >copy of > > Win95 for testing purposes. So the present active partition is not > > bootable, and I can't get by EZBios to boot from the FDD! > >I'm afraid there's no divine inspiration in this suggestion, in fact you >may regard it as the suggestion from hell, but as a last resort, boot from >the original EZBIOS bootable floppy and start over again :^( Well... that turned out to be very close to what seemed to fix the problem... and I have no explanations as to how it did it. After taking a break and cooling my treads for a few hours, I realized I hadn't tried booting directly from a FD, and not waiting for the EZBios prompt to hit CTRL to boot from FD. So after a sufficient timeout, I went back, stuck the EZDrive FD in the FDD, and booted. It wouldn't boot! And left me with the splash screen and a ghost of the A:\> prompt that gave me a new one each time I hit enter. Erg... I tried booting from a Win98 rescue disk, but nada. I forget what happened there. Alas, I gave one last futile attempt to get the EZBios prompt, hit CTRL for the 1001th time, and hope the 1001th time would be magic. Well... it was! I can only gather that by trying to boot directly from one of those two FDs, somehow something was reset somewhere. Like all that uncertainty? Let's see.... wasn't that Heisenberg? I suppose he could have explained this somehow. ;-P Matt _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
