Thanks for your responses. I checked the BIOS setting; the order of boot devices is fine and the floppy is enabled. In fact, I am able to boot OK with a DOS boot floppy (as well a RedHat installation disk), but the floppy drive is just ignored when I use: - the tomsrtbt disk - also a boot floppy I created with the mkbootdisk utility :-(
Thanks, PRP Charles Curley wrote: > > so I used a DOS boot disk and followed the instructions for creating > > the tomsrtbt disk. Creation of the tomsrtbt floppy went fine, but > > when I tried to restart the machine with this floppy in the drive, it was > > just ignored and WinXP booted instead! What went wrong? > > Try going to your BIOS (reboot and enter the BIOS early in the reboot > process, usually with the DEL key) & verifying that the first boot > device is the floppy drive. The vendor may have turned that off for > security. > > Mucking around with your BIOS is a very good way to shoot yourself in > the foot, so make sure that's the only thing you change, if anything. >
