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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 BIOS problems
Date: 28 Aug 1995 11:08:19 +0200
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Jason Miller <jason@indy.net> wrote:
>FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD won't boot up from my 1.26GB IDE hard drive. The
>installer will recognize it, and it'll install, but the installation says
>something about "bios can't reach partition" or some nonsense. 2.0 worked
>just fine. What's up? FWIW, the parameters for the hard drive are
>2448/16/63 (cyl/hd/sec).
The BIOS can only reach cylinders below 1024. Complain at IBM about
this nonsense, they've been reserving only 10 bits.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)