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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Raistlin, Master of Past and Present" <raistln@ksu.ksu.edu>
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Raistlin, Master of Past and Present wrote:

> I'm having a problem. I get throught the installation alright, but when I 
> select BSD from the boot manager, I get the boot prompt, press return, 
> and get the message
> 
> 	partition out of reach from the BIOS
> 	can't load /kernel
> 
> or something to that effect. My BIOS can't recognize my hard drive as it 
> is because it can only handle up to 530 meg disks. Do you have any 
> suggestions on what I can do. I think I've tried nearly everything, anD I 
> really want to get everything up and running.

Get a disk translator or a BIOS that supports it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major