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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!venice!gumby.dsd.trw.com!eel.dsd.trw.com!gottloeb From: gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd-0.1 and DOS co-existance Message-ID: <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Date: 5 Aug 92 23:33:07 GMT Sender: news@gumby.dsd.trw.com Reply-To: gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com () Organization: TRW Space & Defense Lines: 15 Originator: gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com Has anyone successfully installed 386bsd-0.1 on a DOS system in which the disk is an IDE drive using a translation geometry (i.e. not the native number of cyls., etc.) in the BIOS? When I try it, the disk is correctly written along with the correct geometry in the label. However, when I try to boot off the disk, the kernel disk driver insists on fetching the disk geometry from the disk (see wdgetctlr) rather than from the BIOS as the install procedure does. Consequently, it can not find the label. Does anyone know why it is done this way? Thanks in advance, Jeff gottloeb@trwrb.dsd.trw.com