13 Sep
1999
13 Sep
'99
2:32 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Joe wrote:
I played with the Osbourne Executive yesterday. I
can't get it to boot.
All it says is "boot error". It says the same thing with no disks in it,
MS DOS disks in it and with the door open so the message doesn't tell me
anything.
Well... from the description above, the first thing that comes to mind is
that the 'Executive', like all of the Osborne machines is a CP/M machine,
and will likely never run any form of MicroSquish DOS... B^}
In more general terms, the message indicates that the unit is unable to
read the boot sector(s), but without a proper set of diskettes it will be
difficult to troubleshoot reliabily...
-jim
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