svn commit: r40334 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler
Date: Mon Dec 10 15:31:26 2012
New Revision: 40334
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40334

Log:
  Manually mucking with disk geometry is obsolete.
  
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Mon Dec 10 15:31:24 2012	(r40333)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Mon Dec 10 15:31:26 2012	(r40334)
@@ -3204,37 +3204,6 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82
       </qandaentry>
 
       <qandaentry>
-	<question id="boot-read-error">
-	  <para>Why does &os;'s boot loader display <errorname>Read
-	    error</errorname> and stop after the BIOS screen?</para>
-	</question>
-
-	<answer>
-	  <para>&os;'s boot loader is incorrectly recognizing the hard
-	    drive's geometry.  This must be manually set within
-	    &man.fdisk.8; when creating or modifying &os;'s
-	    slice.</para>
-
-	  <para>The correct drive geometry values can be found within
-	    the machine's BIOS.  Look for the number of cylinders, heads
-	    and sectors for the particular drive.</para>
-
-	  <para>Within &man.sysinstall.8;'s fdisk, hit
-	    <keycap>G</keycap> to set the drive geometry.</para>
-
-	  <para>A dialog will pop up requesting the number of cylinders,
-	    heads and sectors.  Type the numbers found from the BIOS
-	    separated by forward slashes.  For example, values of 5000
-	    cylinders, 250 heads, and 60 sectors would be entered as
-	    <userinput>5000/250/60</userinput>.</para>
-
-	  <para>Press <keycap>Enter</keycap> to set the values, and hit
-	    <keycap>W</keycap> to write the new partition table to the
-	    drive.</para>
-	</answer>
-      </qandaentry>
-
-      <qandaentry>
 	<question id="bootmanager-restore">
 	  <para>Another operating system destroyed my Boot Manager.  How
 	    do I get it back?</para>