On 14-Jun-98 Brian C. Grayson spoke unto us all:
#   We've had a heck of a time getting NetBSD installed on a few
# computers locally.  We have some 4G disks that no matter what
# we do, the BIOS won't boot them.  But throw in an older 540MB
# drive that was configured identically, and it'll boot off of
# that.  We've even seen where a disk that booted fine with a P90
# MB won't boot on a P200 MB (and if we stick it back in the P90,
# it still boots).  Could new BIOS's be doing something evil like
# looking for a magic number in the boot block besides the
# standard ones?
# 

Curious.. how do you set up the translation in the BIOS.  I allways set mine to
NONE.  I wonder if having LARGE or LBA would hose you up in this case.  I
figure if netbsd picks it up as chs, and the bios agrees, maybe the bios wont
care about the size of the drive and will just boot it and look for sector 1.

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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