HELP! Osbourne drives

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Sep 13 11:16:44 1999

At 07:32 AM 9/13/99 -0700, Jim wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Joe wrote:
>
>> I played with the Osbourne Executive yesterday. I can't get it to boot.
>> All it says is "boot error". It says the same thing with no disks in it,
>> MS DOS disks in it and with the door open so the message doesn't tell me
>> anything.
>
>Well... from the description above, the first thing that comes to mind is
>that the 'Executive', like all of the Osborne machines is a CP/M machine,
>and will likely never run any form of MicroSquish DOS... B^}

   I know that. I just wanted to see if I could make it generate any other
error messages. Evidently it can't, it reports the same message for ANY
disk related problem. That's why I said that the error message doesn't
mean much.

>
>In more general terms, the message indicates that the unit is unable to
>read the boot sector(s), but without a proper set of diskettes it will be
>difficult to troubleshoot reliabily...

   I have three good sets of disks including a recent set from Don M. I'm
sure it isn't a disk problem and I'm fairly sure that it isn't a drive
problem.

    Joe
Received on Mon Sep 13 1999 - 11:16:44 BST