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Thread ID: 39622	2003-11-12 07:07:00	Bootable media won't boot	Caesius (3758)	Press F1

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191292	2003-11-12 07:07:00	Hi all, I've an old PC with everything hooked up. When I insert either a bootable CD or floppy, I just get the message: "Missing operating system" Both the FDD and the CDD are working. The only bios setting I can find reavent to me is the setting: "Boot sequence: A, C or C, A". Which I assume means the HDD and the FDD. I have set it to A, C with no luck. My system has award BIOS if it's any help. Any help welcomed. Cheers, Ben	Caesius (3758)
191293	2003-11-12 07:29:00	what are you trying to boot of the machines CD that doesn't support booting from cd? If its a Linuxdistro there may be a floppy boot image on the cd you can create a boot floopy that accesses the cd on start up. Hope that makes sense.	mark.p (383)
191294	2003-11-12 07:34:00	Well it won't boot off the bootable CD anyway as you don't have that option. The setting should be A, C ( as you have it ) Check the setting in the BIOS under drives and make sure that the BIOS knows there is in fact a floppy drive. I used to deliberately disable mine so people didn't put in naughty disks. :-) You may find that the floppy disk drive is dead. More likely though is the fact that a floppy formatted on a computer other than the one you are using the disk on may have the tracks laid out in a slightly different place to where YOUR drive expects them. This will result in an unreadable disk. I would try as many bootable floppy disks as you can get from mates. One of them just may work. To test this one out you could create a boot floppy using another computer then take the whole drive out and put it in the computer you are trying to boot. I hope this helps.	Elephant (599)
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