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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:49:55 -0700
From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 BETA - missing OS using whole disk
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I had the same problem, with a 2.1G drive and an NCR53C810.
This system was running 2.0.5A built from source, on 2.0-R
labelled disk.  Solved (finally) by booting dos, running fdisk,
making a dos partition of the whole disk, and then booting
from the boot.flp and slice and labelling the disk.  According to Rodney
things aren't happy if the slicer is fed a number of cylinders
larger than 1024.  (Shouldn't it complain then?)

Russell