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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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> 
> > > Geometry correct?
> > 
> >     Hmmmm... I thought one of the reasons why I bought a SCSI drive
> > was to avoid worrying about stuff like geometry and cylinder
> > translations and what not.  At least I never had to worry about it on
> > any other computer with a SCSI disk until now.  The older installers
> > guessed it correctly, so I didn't touch the settings on this one.
> 
> 
When in doubt freebsd looks to see what DOS did, so it you have a DOS
partition, it'll use those geometry figures..

by definition then at least the BIOS and FreeBSD will match..

julian