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Boot TS - No Floppy Drive Seek

Explanation: The BIOS seems to skip the floppy drive seek but continues on and does not stop here.

Diagnosis: One reason why this might happen is that you have told your BIOS to skip checking the floppy drives, by disabling the floppy disk seek BIOS parameter. Aside from this issue, if the boot continues beyond this point the boot problem is probably not strictly related to the floppy drives, but if you are trying to boot the operating system from a bootable floppy and the drive isn't working, well...

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