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From: "Raistlin, Master of Past and Present" <raistln@abc.ksu.ksu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.0.5 installation problems.
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:21:39 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
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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. I think this is causing a 
problem, but I'm not sure how to get around it. If I reinstall it with 
the boot sector below 1024, will it work? When I run pfdisk, it tells me 
that the boot needs to be at 1023,*,*. Is there a way to get around this 
without reinstalling it. It's taken me nearly two weeks to get a good 
installation, and now I can't get it to boot back up from the boot 
manager. HELP!!!!

Chris

Raistlin, Master of Past and Present
Ruler of the Tower of High Sorcery
raistln@ksu.ksu.edu
raistln@cis.ksu.edu