Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!uci-ics!zardoz!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!linus!gateway.mitre.org!carlson From: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Booting from 1.44 meg drive Message-ID: <71802@linus.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 89 18:10:09 GMT References: <621.25073BBA@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) Organization: The Mitre Corporation Lines: 22 In article <621.25073BBA@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >In article <893@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, tsaavik@cbnewse.ATT.COM (bobby.j.lang) writes: > >I have a 1.44 meg 3 1/2" floppy drive installed in my XT Clone using > >Western Digital's FOX 4 card. My problem is the machine will not boot > >from the 1.44 floppy drive. I have Phoenix Bios Ver 2.52 (I think) and > >Any suggestions on how to boot from this drive (recognized as b: by the >You can't. Not with your current set-up, at least. MS-DOS will only >let you boot off the first floppy drive (A:), or from the partition I don't think it's MSDOS that is the problem, its your BIOS. Zenith PC's, which use a Zenith version of MS-DOS and a Zenith BIOS, can boot from any of the disk drives. However, this is set by going into the setup program (in ROM), and choosing the boot device. Zenith also allows you to boot only from A:(or B:), only from C:, or to first try A:, then try C:. The setup ROM is accessed through Ctrl-Alt-Insert, so it is available even when the PC cannot boot (for example, if the A: drive was the boot drive, but it is now bad). Since this is Zenith's own BIOS, I doubt that it is used in any other clones. Bruce Carlson