what can i do with a 486?

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:35, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:
> > deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> >>> The point has been made before in this thread, but you need to change
> >>> the way the NEW machine accesses the drive FROM LBA to CHS BEFORE you
> >>> install.
> >>>
> >>> Your new system supports LBA. The old one doesn't, and its view of the
> >>> disk is very different. You must ensure that the disk "looks right"
> >>> before installation.
> >>>
> >>> CHS addressing started to be a problem as soon as disks stopped actually
> >>> having a fixed number of sectors per track. IDE drives circumvented it
> >>> by lying to the BIOS about what they looked like. If you are really
> >>> unlucky, you will have to choose a compatible pair of lies.
> >>>
> >> So I've tried disabling LBA mode for that HDD, but the results are the
> >> same: "missing operating system"
> > 
> > Did you also reinstall after that?
> > 
> 
> Of course.

Did you install boot0?  (The MBR boot block that will list the partitions?)  
If so, you need to use boot0cfg to turn off 'packet' mode to instruct boot0 
to not use LBA.  I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread.  You can do 
this by booting the disk up in the newer machine after the install and 
running boot0cfg, then moving the disk over to the 486 machine.

-- 
John Baldwin