Hello all,
I'm working on my getting my 2500 SX/20 going. The battery had died so I created a dos startup floppy with the setupsx program. After re configuring I still cannot boot off of the original hard disk with windows 3.1. It only wants to boot off of drive A. If I boot into the floppy dos I can switch to drive c and look at all the files. Trying to run "win" on drive c tells me "himem.sys" not found.
I've tried reinstalling dos on 2 different hard drives, with 2 sets of 6.0 install diskettes. Everything works and it tells me to remove all floppy disks and reboot. When I do it just tells me to insert the system diskette. I've tried all different permutations of IDE cable/jumpers. I tried running "sys c:" on drive A, and it returns success. I don't know how to tell the computer to boot off the hard drive. I don't remember there being some magic to it.
Thanks for any suggestions!
I'm working on my getting my 2500 SX/20 going. The battery had died so I created a dos startup floppy with the setupsx program. After re configuring I still cannot boot off of the original hard disk with windows 3.1. It only wants to boot off of drive A. If I boot into the floppy dos I can switch to drive c and look at all the files. Trying to run "win" on drive c tells me "himem.sys" not found.
I've tried reinstalling dos on 2 different hard drives, with 2 sets of 6.0 install diskettes. Everything works and it tells me to remove all floppy disks and reboot. When I do it just tells me to insert the system diskette. I've tried all different permutations of IDE cable/jumpers. I tried running "sys c:" on drive A, and it returns success. I don't know how to tell the computer to boot off the hard drive. I don't remember there being some magic to it.
Thanks for any suggestions!