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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!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4ia7s3$191@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960312162021.10065A-100000-100000@abc.ksu.ksu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "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. ;-)