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From: nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: trouble installing SCO 386 (2.3) - boot0: error 80
Summary: drive type 10 - 800 or so cylinders
Keywords: HELP!
Message-ID: <222@aimed.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 04:30:06 GMT
References: <204@aimed.UUCP> <8912@alice.UUCP>
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In article <8912@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
> In article <204@aimed.UUCP> nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) writes:
[ stuff deleted - verbiage don't ya know ]

> not support drives with more than 1024 cylinders.
> Although Xenix doesn't care if you use the whole drive for xenix the
> bios boot-routine may care. It may choke if it notices you are trying to
> boot from a drive with more than 1024 cyls.
> What drive-type did you specify? It doesn't matter to Xenix in case you
> keep the whole drive for Xenix, so you may want to pretend you have a smaller
> disk in the cmos-setup memory.

I'm using drive type 10, as suggested by Priam. It doesn't seem to matter what
CMOS says, though - I've tried about 6 different types, same result.

Nick
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