On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:09 -0400, A LeDonne wrote: > On 6/29/06, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > > > Some time ago, in a moment of ill-advised penny pinching I bought one of > > Fry's ECS motherboard & AMD cpu specials. (I prefer AMD cpus, it's the > > cheapo mobo that has caused me the problems I've had.) I like to have a > > Smart Boot Manager (SBM) diskette around as an "insurance policy" way to > > boot into the various operating systems on my box. After installing the > > new motherboard, I found that although it would boot from an old DOS > > diskette, it wouldn't boot from an SBM diskette. I cussed mildly & > > accepted it. Then Tuesday, for some reason I tried again--whaddaya > > know--it worked! I figured that I must have just had a couple of bum > > diskettes when I tried before. Then I tried last night with four (4) > > known good SBM diskettes--including the one that had worked on Tuesday. > > No dice. I even burned a couple of new diskettes using the SBM on the > > Ubuntu CD. Still no dice. If that stupid board had NEVER booted from an > > SBM diskette, I'd just live with it, but the fact that it did boot > > correctly ONE TIME has me baffled. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > -mj- > > You did say diskette... wiht intermittent floppy failure I would > replace the drive and the cable. My time is worth the $20 to replace > first as a highly invasive troubleshooting technique. ---- given the reliability factor of both floppy disks and floppy disk drives, that's reasonably sage advice except for the one other bit advice - don't do floppies. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss