On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Brian Mason wrote:
> ok i can make the images boot and classic, i want to use v.61 for a reason,
> just so you know. but when i reboot it checks the boot disc but then
> continues booting windows.i look at the disk in windows and there are all
> the files and folders as i think that there should be but there is nothing
> in there that looks like a executale to boot from. shouldnt there be some
> kind of program that catches in the boot sequence to start the whole thing
> up? like i said i have all the config files and all the data files
> associatesd with classic.gz and boot.gz already down to disc i just can't
> boot it. thanx for the time.
> bria mason
>
The image is structured with a syslinux boot block loader.
The BIOS goes and executes the boot block on the floppy. It doesn't show up as
a file. The situation you describe (boot floppy ignored, boot from HD) sounds
like you need to go into your bios settings and make sure your boot sequence
is Floppy, CD, C: or somesuch. It sounds like you have it set to boot from HD
before the bios looks for floppies. It finds windows on the HD and then
ignores the floppy. This needs to be changed to look at the floppy before
the existing system on the HD. Hope that helps...
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