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AMIBIOS won't boot to floppy if it sees
Sometimes it would auto-detect the HD, but as larger capacity than it is, with 16 heads vs 15. Sometimes it would acknowledge the CD-ROM, but determine that it wasn't ATAPI compatible. It usually took a long time doing this. Other times, it zipped right through this detection process.
Anyway, the bottom line is, whether I left it with the figures it autodetected, or whether I plugged in the correct figures, when it would acknowledge both the HD and the CD-ROM (so I could proceed with FDISK, reformat, and setup from the WINDOWS 98 CD), it would finish theboot process by sear