Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dos Emulation? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960403162308.10428A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960403120356.9612D-100000@wichita>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Tam Weng Seng wrote: > Hi, > I apologize for disapearing off the face of the Earth, but my > machine is down with a hard disk failure. To make matters worse, my root > partition was on it ... Anyhow, I have mangaged to purchase a new IDE > controller and hard disk. Sadly, the controller seems to be causing the > install floppy to fail, so I am going to try a different IDE controller. Sounds like a problem I had, until I disabled LBA disk translation in the BIOS. If LBA was on, I'd get a read error trying to boot the boot disk. I have no clue what the relationship is. Hope that helps.
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