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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl
Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly
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>> >is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry
>> >reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs...

>This is waht 2.0R thought of it:

>sd2: 2006MB (4108600 total sec), 3053 cyl, 12 head, 112 sec, bytes/sec 512

2.0R worked because it didn't insist on a valid geometry (sec < 64) and the
invalid geometry happened not to be used (only one partition starting on
the first track).

Bruce