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ERROR MESSAGE ON POST START SCREEN
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At the risk of dating myself, old IBM PCs used a reference disk to configure itself. Any additional adapters would come with its own reference disk, whose information would need to be added to the PS/2's configuration before the adapter would be functional.
Apparently "newer" IBM's have a hidden partition that contains the reference information. See:
If you can't access the reference information from the harddrive, then I'm not sure where you can obtain the necessary files to create a diskette version. All links I've found refer to ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/ but the refdisks portion appears to no longer exist.
Apparently "newer" IBM's have a hidden partition that contains the reference information. See:
If you can't access the reference information from the harddrive, then I'm not sure where you can obtain the necessary files to create a diskette version. All links I've found refer to ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/ but the refdisks portion appears to no longer exist.
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