In a message of 18 Aug 96 Arthur Sawilejskij wrote to me:

 DW>> That can work but I've had some really spectacular crashes (due to
 DW>> Emplant) that would not allow me to even get into the boot menu.  Then
 DW>> the disk method is the only way.

 AS>      Id dat right?

Dat it isth, Ita...

 AS>      I had a real spectacular crash the other day - one of my HD's
 AS> wasn't even recognised.

That sounds like one of the Emplant crashes.  The same happened to me the
other day.  The boot menu wouldn't even show upon booting.  The disk method
worked, though.

 AS>      I tried a floppy boot - still nothing. I was starting to get a bit
 AS> worried at that stage. But I turned the system off for 15 minutes,
 AS> booted it up, and voila, all was fine.

 AS>      It's happened a few times before - I can't understand why turning
 AS> it off for a decent period should make a difference - unless fully
 AS> discharging everything in memeory is the thing.

That could be part of it.  Memory can take 15 minutes to run down once
power is removed.


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