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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DOS partition trouble
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:30:29 -0700 (MST)
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> >I was under the impression that fictitious geometry was *always*
> >an artifact of the BIOS's idea of geometry, not the oter way around.
> 
> That would usually fail for disks partitioned under another BIOS,
> especially under an old BIOS with a limited number of defaults.

Ugh.  So NCR has "clevered us up the butt".  8-(.

When will we start using LBA's in the boot code, and ignoring the
C/H/S portion of the partition table?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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