Charles A. Davis wrote:
> Cord Coslor wrote:
> >
> > Wow, I actually got my name specifically mentioned in a question
> > post.... yipppeeee! Anyway, Larry there could be several things you
> > could try. First, your DOS disk may not be readable anymore... that
> > often happens these days on those classics. Second, alignment of the
> > boot disk drive may be out. Have you been able to get 'anything' to come
> > up on the screen? Any errors or anything.
> >
> > Give me another reply, and let me know in more detail what you have
> > going on. If nothing else, I can get you a known good 8" floppy boot
> > diskf or the little bigger, and we'll give that a try.
> >
> > Good luck, and get back to me,
> >
> > CORD COSLOR
> >
> > Lawrence Walker wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > > When I boot up with or without an OS disk I get a "boot error ht'
> > > msg. The dd spins up and sounds like its loading. Could it have been
> > > set up to boot off one of the hard drives ? I'm really a novice with
> > > TRS-80s but have Coco 1 and 2 in my collection and a Scriptsit cart.
> > > Is there something I'm not doing ?
> > >
> > > ciao larry
> > > lwalkerN0spaM_at_interlog.com
> >
>
> Hi Larry & Cord:
>
> When first reading Larry's question, there wwas something in the back of
> my mind about "If the thing was supposed to boot from the hard disk --
> you needed to hold down the CTRL (or maybe ALT) key to get it to read
> from the floppy?
>
> This stuff of 'automaticly' checking the floppy drive, iss 'new fangled
> software stuff'.
Not necessarily true... but I do understand what you're saying. I guess when I
wrote the reply, I didn't remember he had a hard drive running.
CORD
>
>
> Chuck
>
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