Hello Hamish,

On Feb 14 23:13 in a msg to Poe Lim, Hamish Moffatt of 3:632/552 wrote:

 > For some reason, Boot Manager would not appear to allow a boot partition
 > entry if the partition goes beyond about the 1Gb mark when that partition
 > and all those before it are added together, ie if you have three
 > partitions, and the total for all three is under 1Gb, they can all
 > be added
 > to BM menu, but if adding the third takes it to let's say 1.1Gb, the third
 > cannot be added to the BM menu. Have you seen that with SCSI, which I
 > though shouldn't have that problem? And is there a way around it?

 HM> Odd thing happening here, actually. I don't have the problem you
 HM> have above; I have Warp 4 happily installed at the end of my 3.2Gb
 HM> hard drive (EIDE) and it's on the boot manager menu. However, now
 HM> Warp's FDISK says the Partition Mapping on disk 2 (the 3.2Gb) is
 HM> corrupt, and won't let me do anything with my partitions except
 HM> delete them.

Did you change m/b or the BIOS? Apparently LBA isn't quite the standard
it's suppose to be, and it's implemented slightly differently for different
vendors, and when the translations of one doesn't match that of another...
garbage.

Cheers,
Poe

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