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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net>
To: razzle dazzle root beer <marko@foo.notwork.net>
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In-reply-to: razzle dazzle root beer's message of Thu, 1 May 1997 14:35:27
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Subject: Re: boot with old bios, new drive
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Dell 320LT luggable computer, 386SX20 w/387. I installed
> a 520 meg quantum fireball harddrive(ide) but the bios does not have
> any user configurable geometry settings, nor any preset ones above
> 262 megabytes. Freebsd 2.2.1 detects the drive fine, installs with
> no problem except that it cannot boot.

Have you tried setting the disk to (some lame BIOS size), use either
of the DOS utilities ide_conf.exe or pfdisk.exe to get the real BIOS
geometry, and tell FreeBSD about this, adding extra cylinders to get
the entire disk?

Other than that, have you tried using 'dangerously dedicated mode',
NOT being compatible with another OS?

The ?? is a part of the compatibility layer; it should go away if you
drop compatibility.  You will boot directly into the kernel selector.

Eivind.