Newbie needs help about d8b connecting to Motu 2408 Mk1

[Phil.c]

Are they new floppys' as it doesn't take much for a floppy not to work in a d8b

[anyhorizon]

then your floppy drive is defunct. New ones are out there.

Peter

[Crash]

It happens, I had a floppy drive die in my rig some years back.

[angelinc]

floppy works. booting with a ms-dos 6 disk were succesfully, but fdisk is not recognizing the hard disk. Bios is recognizing it. but fdisk c: says no drive found.

[angelinc]

I ordered a 80 GB Western Digital now at ebay. It will take a while until its here I guess

[angelinc]

Hey I made it to access the hard disc of the host computer. Its empty :-O
I tried to install the 3.0 OS now. It led me through the whole installation process of the 2 discs until the desks display said:
Remove your floppy and reboot...
Now I'm thrown back to start:
File Not Found
BOOT FAIL

What can I do now?

[angelinc]

I have no clue anymore. I tried it all:
- deleted all partitions with fdisk leaving it raw, installed os 3, BOOT FAIL
- creating a new primary partition, format c:, installed os 3, BOOT FAIL
- found in another thread with same problem, that it worked for him with replacing the edo rams (took it out, placed it back):
- I did that as well, still BOOT FAIL

I took out the HD to check with another machine, HD has no errors and all needed files are on it, but still BOOT FAIL
I even changed the IDE cable, no success
What else can it be? I sadly have no ideas anymore.
Any suggestions? I'm thankful for every tip I can get.

[angelinc]

YAAAAAAAAAY!!! Happy Camper here!!!
This saved my life: http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/files/d8b_f ... ocdure.pdf
LBA off and it was booting like a charm.
Now I go further with testing.
It works now with OS 3.0. I have no authorization codes. Does it make sense to update to 5.1 then?

[Petersueco]

This thread will give you an idea about installing and have OS v5.1 up and running. Read specially page 5.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1634

Good luck.
Peter.

[angelinc]

Thank you Peter. I'll check it out ...

All the best
Marco