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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot
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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