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Post #154,569
by a6l6e6x
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5/10/04 10:09:06 PM
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New The booting device sequence is in BIOS menu.
Have you looked at the options there?

You should be able to see what key to press to enter the BIOS menu while the memory tests are runnung. On my machines (with Asus mobos) it is the Delete key.
Alex
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Post #154,622
by dlevitt
5/11/04 12:47:05 PM
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New Ancient Hardware
Well it seems the old Adaptec SCSI controller's BIOS will not allow booting from a CDROM. The Motherboard BIOS was designed back when 212 meg was a *huge* disk drive.

I've obtained a 'less obsolete' ATX formfactor box [don't know the CPU, but its likely much faster than the P133 in the other box]

Now all I need to do is scrounge some RAM [probably retail] then I should have a working x86 box - this one should boot from CDrom, sidestepping the original difficulty in generating a boot floppy from a .img file on a Mac
     Create boot floppy on a Mac??? - (dlevitt) - (8) - May 10, 2004, 08:48:04 PM EDT
         what kind of adapter? - (boxley) - (6) - May 10, 2004, 08:50:47 PM EDT
             Re: what kind of adapter? - (dlevitt) - (5) - May 10, 2004, 08:59:56 PM EDT
                 when you see the scsi bios flash press alt A - (boxley) - (4) - May 10, 2004, 09:30:58 PM EDT
                     Re: when you see the scsi bios flash press alt A - (dlevitt) - (3) - May 10, 2004, 09:56:34 PM EDT
                         partition into 1024 cylenders, put a dos partition on it - (boxley) - May 10, 2004, 09:59:57 PM EDT
                         The booting device sequence is in BIOS menu. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - May 10, 2004, 10:09:06 PM EDT
                             Ancient Hardware - (dlevitt) - May 11, 2004, 12:47:05 PM EDT
         Making boot floppy on a PC. - (a6l6e6x) - May 10, 2004, 10:18:48 PM EDT

Oh right, your thing. Yeah, that stinks.
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