[iyonix-support] Re: Boot hiccup

In message of 20 Aug, Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Since months, my beloved Iyonix gets interrupted during boot up.
> Everything goes all right at first (both the coloured leds on the front
> panel do their job, the floppy disk makes its lonely sound, the system
> beeps and the NumLock switches on). Then everything stops...
> 
> A simple hit on Escape wakes the machine up again, and all the predesk
> texts appear on screen, etcetera. So it's nothing serious really, not even
> annoying, but I'd like to know what could cause the interrupt.
> As far as I can see, it must be something before the !Boot directory gets
> involved, but I usually I don't see very far.
> 
> Has anyone ever had a similar experience?

Possibly but mine turned out to be a failing power supply and your
symptoms aren't quite right for that.

But I have found it invaluable to install David Pitt's BootSpoolRd
program.  See:

  http://www.pittdj.co.uk/software/bootspool.htm

If that does not show up the problem, there is Reporter from:

  http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/

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