** Reply to message from Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:16:57 -0400
>Something I have had good luck with on SOME old Dell BIOSs is to
>hard-code the drive parameters as 1024/16/63 (504M), rather than
>autodetecting. As long as your root partition is in that first 504M,
>the system will boot without problem or delay, as it won't try to detect
>the disk parameters at all, and OpenBSD will properly detect the entire
>disk.
Thanks for the detailed info, and especially for this hint -- which I
will certainly try.
Dave
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