Re: Booting problems - no physical floppy disk

I have a SCO 5.0.5 box that does not have a physical floppy disk.

If I setup the BIOS to pretend there is a floppy the system boots
fine, when I remove the floppy from the BIOS the system will not
boot.

I've read that issuing hd(40)unix at boot: first searches the
floppy -
I think this is why its failing.

Is there any boot: command I can issue to skip searching for the
floppy?

Watch the splash message during the hardware detection phase There may
be an error message telling you what is wrong. Or look at the last
part of /usr/adm/messages to see the same info.

I unplugged the floppy on one of my testbed machines and whether or
not I had the controller active or the drive specified I got a warning
message that there was no floppy available. That would indicate to me
that your problem is a little deeper. Could there have been a floppy
installed when the system was loaded?

hd(40)unix is an alternate way of specifying the current version. It
comes up with the same error messages.
.

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