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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: Free bsd wont boot
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DGw57x.IvA@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <467utp$1fo@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com> <46bmck$j0k@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 07:38:20 GMT
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In article <46bmck$j0k@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Richard Jacoby <rick@TotSysSoft> wrote:
>>I have a P90 with on board IDE. I installed BSD. Everything worked fine
>>except when I booted up off the hard drive. It gives a read error and
>>never even starts to boot up. if I take the drive to another machine it
>>works no problem.
>Looks like a "geometry" problem. Both machines work with different
>disk geometry translations.
Check out whether the LBA functionality of your BIOS is turned
on or off - this does a SCSI-like remapping of the physical
geometry to a logical one to get around the 540 meg limit
provided by the ancient 1024 tracks / 15 heads / 17 sectors
BIOS limitation (like SCSI host adapters do for years now!)
Bye,
Martin
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