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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation problems.
Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:50:43 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"Raistlin, Master of Past and Present" <raistln@abc.ksu.ksu.edu> writes:
> I've installed 2.0.5 on my hard drive, and everything runs fine until I 
> reboot. I have a 1 gig Seagate harddrive that has 2099 cylinders. It came 
> with a program that fooled Dos to read the hard drive even though my 
> BIOS couldn't handle more than 1024 cylinders.

What's the geometry as seen by DOS and BIOS?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)