what can i do with a 486?

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

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.