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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 20:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bryan Ogawa wrote:

> 
> I have a machine which has a new IDE drive (1.6Gig Seagate).  I installed
> 2.1.5 on it, and have encountered the following problem:
> 
> Booteasy can find the drive, but it cannot reach the boot prompt.

This is a sure sign of a geometry problem on your first disk.  Try
reinstalling, this time make a small DOS partition, then delete it in the
fdisk editor.

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