Boot floppy made with rawrite - appears to boot from floppy and then pass boot to windows

[my-las...@mediaone.net]

I made a Redhat 7 boot floppy to install a linux for the first time on a machine
which won't boot from cd-rom, following the instructions for using rawrite from
the ISO images on CD (boot.img).

The machine is a compaq presario of old vintage (P90, model CDS992), and while I
can't find the bios commands to ensure boot from floppy the system APPEARS to
boot from the floppy when I power it up and the linux floppy is in (sits there
and reads the floppy for a while).

However nothing special happens other than a noticeable lag while it reads the
floppy, and finally the Windows 95 installation that's already on the C:
partition boots up.

Anybody know of cases where the linux floppy boot just does nothing and passes
control along to the hard disk boot partition?

D. Tenny
my-las...@mediaone.net - no spam please

[E J]

This compaq is the same vintage as yours (with CPU, hard disk upgrades).
I think it is a hardware problem with your floppy drive. Try cleaning the floppy
drive heads, check the floppy
cables, or consider getting a replacement floppy drive.

[Mike Holder]

Had a similar problem creating boot disks for FreeBSD. When I copied the
files from the CD-ROM to my hard drive the disk would boot but, then fall
through to Windows. When I ran the files from the CD the disks were created
properly. Just a thought.

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