Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com> writes:

> At 07:45 PM 1/21/2003 -0800, Russell McManus wrote:
> >I've just picked up shuttle SS51G, which is a PC cube
> >motherboard.  I've installed 1.6 sucessfully onto the hard disk
> >using sysinst (everything seemed to go fine), but when I try
> >to boot, I get something like this at the bottom of the screen:
> >
> >F1: windows
> >F2: netbsd
> >3
> 
> I had *exactly* the same problem (right down to the "3"!) when I tried
> to use a disk with NetBSD that had been installed using a different
> machine that set different CHS parameters for the drive - in my case,
> the OS was installed using a machine whose BIOS would only allow
> showing the disk as 63 sectors * 240 heads * nnn cylinders, while the
> motherboard on the machine I planned to actually *use* the disk on was
> set for 255 sectors * 16 heads (this second machine is coincidentally
> a Shuttle SV24, and 255 sectors its default setting for auto-detected
> drives).
> 
> I solved the problem by going into the Shuttle BIOS and changing the
> detect parameters for the hard disk from "AUTO" to "LBA". This makes
> the BIOS report the disk as 63 sectors * 255 heads, which is close
> enough to make things work.

Changing the detect parameters for the hard disk from "AUTO" to "LBA"
did the trick; I am writing this email from the box in question.
Thanks for the help with this.

-russ