Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!vrdxhq!tom From: tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: My Compaq 8086 is finicky ... Keywords: no boot from hard disk Message-ID: <10269@vrdxhq.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 14:15:25 GMT Organization: Verdix Corporation, Chantilly, VA Lines: 32 I am still having problems with my compaq ... I tried a later version of dos (MS-DOS 3.2) and it still won't boot from hard disk -- only floppy. I would like to hear from someone who has the following configuration and boots from the hard disk with no problem -- Compaq Deskpro (8086 NOT 8088) (Actually, I have a NEC V30) 1 5.25 360K drive 1 20 MB hard disk 1 3.5 720K drive 640K memory (the memory is: 256k on mother board 256k on DAVONG memory board (bought in 1982 and NO memory errors ever!) 128k on AST 6-pack plus) THe Compaq was originally purchased in Aug 85 (Davong board was inherited from my vintage IBM-PC) To support the 3.5 drive, I use device = driver.sys. Bizarrely, both B: and D: point to the 3.5 drive (B is 360k, D is 720k). Anyway -- I need help. (And thanks to the people who suggested I check FDISK to make sure I had an active partition...that would be a pretty brainless mistake -- but one I am certainly capable of. Alas, that WAS NOT the problem.) I am not desperate, but I did resort to writing to Jerry Pournelle. Thanks in advance ... Tom Welsh