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<<On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:40:48 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> said:

> I still have a test machine here, of comparatively modern design,
> which won't install *without* DD mode and I've tried quite a number of
> different geometries for it without success (it's all SCSI, not IDE)

I have a bunch of machines which have this problem, but which we found
an alternative work-around.  It's one of these issues where the BIOS
looks at the partition table to try to guess the ``geometry''; but
when there is no partition table, it makes a guess (that sysinstall
heeds) which is it unable to make use of in practice.  These machines
are all due to be retired next FY so I don't much care about getting
this fixed.

-GAWollman



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