Booting from Floppy

[RWDPLZ]

I just got my thinkpad in the mail, a 770ED. When I turn it on, it does the memory check, then it goes to a screen where it asks to insert disk and press F1 (the picture of the floppy and the floppy disc, and the arrows pointing to F1). so Ipress F1, and it gives me the errors

I9990302
I9990305

From what I found on IBM's site, this just means the hard drive doesn't have anything on it? Which is what I was expecting anyway.

So I turn it on holding F1, and run all the tests at the config screen, and it passes all the ones it runs (BTW should the memory test take such a long time? I didn't time it, but it felt like half an hour with 134,000KB installed?)

In the startup sreen, it lists the boot device order as CD, floppy, hard drive. In the pictures below, it shows FDD-1 with a 1 next to it, and HDD-2 with a 2 next to it. There isn't any picture in the HDD-1 square?

ANYWAY, when I start the computer with a disc in the floppy drive, it still goes to the insert floppy screen, and just shows those 2 codes. If I press any buttons, certain buttons won't do anything, and others will just make the beeping noise. What should I do? Is there a way to get to a command prompt to access A:\ ?

[RWDPLZ]

Huh, I reset the boot device order and I just got it to work? Weird...

[nitro2k01]

It's not too weird. From what I can tell from your description, your old boot order was first floppy drive, secind hard drive. You probably have no second hard drive, and you had no floppy in the the FDD.