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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!abc.ksu.ksu.edu!raistln 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960312162021.10065A-100000-100000@abc.ksu.ksu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: abc.ksu.ksu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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