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   Bob to All   
   Re: can't find BIOS drive number   
   21 Aug 05 17:17:12   
   
   From: bob@bob.com   
      
   Yes, here's the deal. Uninstall BEOS, toss it in the trash, your problems   
   will go away. This is as simple of a solution as a simple solution can get.   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1120843019.513538.62750@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > I'm trying to get BeosMAX to boot without a floppy. Every time I try to   
   > install bootman, it says that it can't find the BIOS drive number for   
   > the BeOS boot volume. I've tried everything I can think of (bootpart,   
   > addbeos, changing kernel options with PrimalToys) to get it to work,   
   > but when I try to boot with them, it says that it can't find the boot   
   > volume or there's a disk error. Here's how my hard drives are laid out:   
   >   
   > primary master - 120 gig Windows XP (NTFS)   
   >   
   > primary slave - 5 gig BeOS & 75 gig backup (fat32)   
   >   
   > Does anyone know what the deal is?   
   >   
      
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