HELP: Can boot UNIX from HD, CANNOT Boot DOS from Floppy

Eric Varsanyi ewv at craycos.com
Thu Aug 30 09:46:10 AEST 1990


In article <96 at towers.UUCP> robert at towers.UUCP (Robert Hoquim) writes:
>
>I have even seen instances of under the AMI bios you need to take power off
>the cmos (external batt. or onboard nicad) and let it discharge before you
>can unscramble the cmos setup.  
>

On the newer AMI revisions you can hold down <INS> while booting and CMOS
is ignored. The leaves you with (conservative) parameters and usually gets
things running.

-Eric Varsanyi
 Cray Computer Corporation
 ewv at craycos.com
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-Eric Varsanyi (ewv at craycos.com)        Cray Computer Corporation



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