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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Today I tried, after making a floppy disk version 
> of BL2 on this machine, to boot from it.
> 
> Half of this disk has now been loaded.  
> (This is Disk 1, with three files)

If Disk 1 has only three files, then something is
seriously wrong.  What are the names of those three
files?

> General Failure Error reading drive A
> Abort, retry, ...., fail

Bad floppy.  Badly aligned drive.  Take your pick.

> I typed f for fail.
> At this point Steven's program ignored the failure 
> and told me anyway to:

If you decide to ignore the failure, then so will I.

> Insert DISK2.  Strike any key when ready.
> I did this to see what would happen and got
> 
> Divide overflow.

Big surprise.  The second floppy won't succeed when
the first floppy fails.

> Is this a motherboard problem of some sort?

A media or drive problem of some sort?

> I will eventually replace this computer with a few 
> others but would like to learn from my problem.

Old computers:  old dirty drives, loose drive mechanisms,
varying alignments.  Add to the mix:  old worn disks,
old dusty disks, cheap new disks.

Cheers,
Steven