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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:37:45 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.05R panics on boot
Message-ID:  <199506191337.XAA04073@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> DOS has no problems handling >= 504 MB.  This is a BIOS problem.

>This is strange because I can configure the bios for 32 heads and over 
>800 Megs, but if I do a fdisk, DOS says the maximum partition size is 504 MB.

This _is_ strange.  How do you know that you can configure the BIOS like
this.  I only have old BIOS's that allow you to enter 32 heads in setup
but don't actually support 32 heads.

Bruce



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