Re: Debian

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

you need a crisis recovery disk - in normal circumstances your bootblock
is sacrosanct. Download the correct bios for the system, and a
bootblock if this is a seperate file. Create the bootable flash floppy,
make sure the system jumpers render the bootblock flashable & insert the
disk. The system should boot from the floppy. Flash, making sure if there
is a specific bootblock update section to use this as well.

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Al Hudson wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:
> 
> > I've just about finished a new Debian machine.  Switched it on 
> > tonight and got the following error message.......
> > Award Bootblock  BIOS v1.0
> > BIOS checksum error
> > detecting floppy drive A media
> > insert system disk and press enter.
> 
> Sounds like the sticker on your BIOS has come off ;)) I would try flashing
> it with the latest version from Award, see what that does. If it works,
> then dies again after a while, new BIOS chip time..
> 
> > I've done that and I'm getting a floppy drive turning over and 
> > nothing else.  New hard drive not been used.  Board is a 530BF 
> > Jetways with a 233MHz cpu that was just throwing around in my spares 
> > basket.
> 
> Is it a new mo/bo?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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