18 Feb
1998
18 Feb
'98
6:40 a.m.
Charles A. Davis wrote:
Cord Coslor wrote:
Hi Larry & Cord:
When first reading Larry's question, there wwas something in the back of
my mind about "If the thing was supposed to boot from the hard disk --
you needed to hold down the CTRL (or maybe ALT) key to get it to read
from the floppy?
This stuff of 'automaticly' checking the floppy drive, iss 'new fangled
software stuff'.
Not necessarily true... but I do understand what you're saying. I guess when I
wrote the reply, I didn't remember he had a hard drive running.
CORD
Wow, I actually got my name specifically mentioned in a question
post.... yipppeeee! Anyway, Larry there could be several things you
could try. First, your DOS disk may not be readable anymore... that
often happens these days on those classics. Second, alignment of the
boot disk drive may be out. Have you been able to get 'anything' to come
up on the screen? Any errors or anything.
Give me another reply, and let me know in more detail what you have
going on. If nothing else, I can get you a known good 8" floppy boot
diskf or the little bigger, and we'll give that a try.
Good luck, and get back to me,
CORD COSLOR
Lawrence Walker wrote:
snip
When I
boot up with or without an OS disk I get a "boot error ht'
msg. The dd spins up and sounds like its loading. Could it have been
set up to boot off one of the hard drives ? I'm really a novice with
TRS-80s but have Coco 1 and 2 in my collection and a Scriptsit cart.
Is there something I'm not doing ?
ciao larry
lwalkerN0spaM(a)interlog.com
Chuck
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