On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM +0200, Jan H. van Gils wrote:
> 
> 	Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reading this email message.
> 
> My NetBSD system was still running on a Pentium 133MHz system and it was
> Time to change the system to a faster one.
> I changed the main board and the processor to a Pentium II 266MHz
> 
> But now the NetBSD system will not boot the kernel.
> I do get the NetBSD message (I think that it reads the MBR)
> but then it is unable to load netbsd file. The system then try's to
> read a alterned boot file but that also gives IO INPUT/OUTPUT errors.
> 
> I think that the problem has to do with fact that the onboard IDE
> controllers interpret the disk geometry in an other way.
> 
> My old system was a Pentium 133MHz (64Mb internal memory 4x 16Mb Simm) with
> an Intel Baby-AT board also known as Zappa. The disks are IDE Western
> Digital, one off them is a 1.2Gb and the other a 3.1Gb type.
> 
> My new system is a Pentium II 266MHz (64Mb internal memory 2x 32Mb Dimm)
> 
> Are there people out there that had similar problems and know of a way to
> fix this problem ?

In the BIOS you should have 3 possible geometry: normal, large or LBA
(usually you have this in the section 'auto detect hard disk').

did you try playing with this ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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