First post, by westygw
So, this is a pretty strange issue and after scouring the Internet I haven't quite identified what it is.
I thought maybe, through some expertise, someone here might know more about what's going on.
I've got a later 486 motherboard w/ only ISA and VLB slots. In it is a am486 DX4 100MHz.
No matter what drive I boot from (5.25", 3.5" or HDD), the drive will either not-work or will begin booting, but then turn off (HDD spin down or Floppy light goes off) and it'll just say "STARTING MS-DOS" forever and hang.
The Motherboard doesn't have a controller on-board so I'm using an IDE/FDD host card.
I've tried both host cards and they're confirmed working.. but I get the problem with either one of them.
I've gone so far as to disable all of the extra features on the motherboard (though there are few) and still, nothing.
At this time the only thing attached to the PC, now, is the 5.25" drive, that I'm trying to boot MS-DOS 6.2 from.
Half the time it won't even try to boot and the FDD light won't come on, but if I just keep rebooting it over and over, eventually it'll try for a second.
Any tips? I'm at a loss.