At 12:16 PM 7/15/99 -0600, Greg Haerr wrote:
>
>: I downloaded the images.zip and used RaWrite to pu them on 5 1/4" floppies
>: from my Win95 machine. I took them down to the basement and fired up an
>: old XT clone. Boot messages appear normal (it identifies 2 floppies and 1
>: HDD), but when it asks for the root floppy, the drive light never goes off.
>: I tried swapping disks and pressing enter, but the system hangs there.
>: Has anyone else found this? It may be bad floppies, since the same thing
>: happened when I tried it on another XT clone. I'll try it again as soon as
>: I find two more 5 1/4 disks.
>
> The drive light never goes off on my system either, but ELKS 0.77 runs
>fine. Is your problem that ELKS doesn't work, or with the drive light?
>
The problem is that the system does not mount the root disk (AFAIK) I let
it spin the root disk for 5 minutes after pressing enter, but nothing
happens. But since it works for you, it's probably a problem with my
disks. I found another pair of disks, and will try it again tomorrow.
-Jeff
