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AT MultiUser System
hit F1 to...then the 5.25 Drive tries to load?
Dont tell me I need a disk-!
Or can I take the drive out.
Bios???
A little info would be somewhat enlightening as to your prob.
I gather you are using a 286 with boot probs?
Can we assume it is NOT booting?
If it isn't then copy the sys files to the c: drive.
Now where did my Crystal ball go?
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have you try hitting F1 and if so what happ? yes you do need a boot disk i belive
so you can at install your sys files or auto. com., ect...that way you wont need a boot disk and have a little more play with it.
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Jon3.1 with all due respect you have said very little . So lets try and find out.
If you have a Dos disk 1 or a floppy with the command.com on it then boot to the floppy and type fdisk, it should find the h/drive. If it does then you should be able to copy the system files. if it doesn't go into the Bios and see what is there.
Good luck!
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This old tower is huge-286
It says that message like as it were going to load autoexec.bat at startup - but its not- the beep noise leads to the 5.25 drive trying to load a disk. I hit f1 and it did crap- tryed to load more on 5.25.
I can control alt to restart. f8 or f5 dont work in this situation. dont think escape will either.
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Jon, Eddie is correct in saying your posting is somewhat confusing.
You advise you have a multi-user sytem - must you have this?
If yes, are there any special procedures required in order to boot? I do not recall the function keys being available during boot.
If no, why not use normal dos?
Normally when a 286 boots, it looks first at the A:drive (5.25" or 3.5") and if there is NO FLOPPY *WHATSOEVER* in that drive, it then attempts to boot from the hdd.
Good luck - keep us posted.
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F5 & F8 are functions of DOS6 - not the bios.
Either you need a 5¼ boot floppy (or a boot drive switcher, like bboot) and/or the setup floppy for that model - 286s often didn't have CMOS setup, it was a separate disk.
A little clarity in what you post would go a long way in determining the solution here.
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yeah its not booting to the HDD. IM also betting its and older DOS version.
"At- Multiuser" is the first I guess "command line" that loads. Then scans the memoryTHEN
from there says..
"Fail to boot..(something not realted to hardware)...hit F1 so i do and.. KEEPS loading a red light under the 5.25 drive.
WHen I lock the case of the tower it says the keyboard is locked WTF?
THANKS - help is working.
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Well, you can't even be sure that it has DOS as the OS - there were others.. honest.
"Command Line" is the from the ROM chip.
Obviously seeking a boot device - are you even sure that it has a hard drive?
IDE drives were pretty rare back then - either runs from its own control card or else a proprietary port on the board - not the simplest thing to plunk a modern machine.Likely there's a dead battery (something like a CMOS batt.) - I've seen some pretty odd battery hookups in early models.
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Can i ask WHY THE HELL are there durucell AA batteries in this case? 2 of them hooked to a wire. It does have a HD in the bay.
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'Stream of consciousness as an ineffective posting technique'
... might be a good thesis topic.
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