Subject: Re: Booting sd0 (disk geometry versus bios geometry)
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/23/1998 17:38:05
tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
>And here you lost. Always use the BIOS geometry with an Adaptec SCSI
>hostadapter or it won't boot.

While this is generally good advice, the statement itself isn't generally
true.  I have a couple of Adaptec based systems that were not installled
with the BIOS geometry and which boot just fine.

-- 
Christoph Badura

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