Somewhat OT--hdw: ECS motherboard & SBM

[Mark Jarvis]

 > 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 <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu> 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
> 
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