RadiSys EPC-5A, Hardware & Software Reference Manual

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EPC-5A Hardware & Software Reference Manual
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DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Problem: No boot disk could be found.
Solution(s): This could occur in several different ways.
Your hard disk may not have been partitioned into logical drive(s).
PCs look for logical drives to boot from. Hard disks are physical
drives; partitions are logical drives.
Your BIOS setup screen has all disks disabled, or your hard disk is
disabled and no floppy diskette is inserted in the A: drive. Run the
BIOS setup program and verify that all disk parameters are correct.
If they are, insert a bootable floppy disk in the A: drive and press
enter. If a hard disk is present, verify that it is properly partitioned
and formatted as a system disk and one partition is set active.
DISKETTE DRIVES OR TYPES MISMATCH ERROR - RUN SETUP
Problem: The floppy diskette(s) installed in the system do not match the
configuration information listed in the BIOS setup screen. This may
be due to incorrect entries in the BIOS setup screen or one or both
drives may not be responding at power-up.
Solution(s): Run the BIOS setup program. Make sure the BIOS setup entries
relating to floppy drives correctly reflect the attached floppy drives.
If you are using the EXP-MX module, drive A should be set to
“1.4M”. If no second floppy drive is attached, set drive B to NONE.
If you have no floppy drives, both drive A and drive B should be set to
none.
Also, verify that all floppy drives are firmly connected (via subplane
or ribbon cable) and that each drive has power.
If you are using an external floppy drive via a front panel connector,
verify that the end of the ribbon cable is not shorting to the front panel
and pin 1 on the front panel connector is connected to pin 1 on the
drive.