From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 16:46:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C1D37B561 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 16:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05079 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:36:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA18593; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:36:13 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD-ROM worth $49. References: <20000226223251.3309.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com> <20000226185911.G24331@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Feb 2000 19:36:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:59:11 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > Most likely, the BIOS does not recognize all 20.2 GB and then lies to > the kernel about the disks. > > You might consider a BIOS upgrade. Another workaround is to make a > slice (MSDOS partition) that is <=8 GB at the start of the disk to > boot from. In case Crist wasn't clear: that does not mean installing MSDOS on that initial bit of disk. It means that you make what MSDOS *calls* a partition (but which FreeBSD calls a "slice") out of that initial bit of disk, making a separate one out of the rest of the disk, and you put the root partition of your FreeBSD installation on the first slice. - Lowell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message