> one other bit of advice - don't do floppies. Hmmmm--I wonder if I could train this mobo to boot from SBM on a flash drive? -mj- Craig White wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- 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