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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!news!news.world.net!connected.com!connected.com!not-for-mail From: scottf@hebron.connected.com (Scott Farrand) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: help... installing on hp486 Date: 25 May 1993 01:18:32 -0700 Organization: Connected INC -- Internet Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1tskoo$r9g@hebron.connected.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hebron.connected.com Summary: difficulty getting the install disk to boot on my eisa machine Keywords: ESDI, EISA Help, I have a 486 HP vectra. Its an EISA bus, running ESDI hard drives. I can't get the installation disk to finish booting. oddities on my system: the Hard Drive is remapped 1380 cyls, 8 heads, 32 sectors(?) = 330 MB's. is remapped to: 636 cyls, 16 heads, 64 sectors. I cannot disable the mapping. the instsallation floppy hangs after boot. Help...