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Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk 
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>>>  - Boot the install floppy.
>> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy.
>>> When the little spinning widget appears 
>>> and stops, hit the spacebar.  At the 'boot:" prompt, type 
>>>      wd(0,a)/boot/loader
>>     Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
>>     Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c)
>>     No /boot/loader
>> should i not be telling it that it's the second slice in some way?
> Nope, you're probably SOL.  It looks like your BIOS isn't going to let 
> you go past 8GB.

i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g.  it just
won't boot.

randy


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