From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 1:10:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.axess.com (mail.axess.com [216.162.64.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E6D37B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from prospero (29-67-dialup-mtl.axess.com [216.162.67.29]) by mail.axess.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eAD97eh23105 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:07:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0FAFE6.7FE7@axess.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:09:58 -0500 From: Henry Sobotka Reply-To: sobotka@axess.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with large drives? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to install from Power Pak v4 (April 2000) onto a recently purchased 20.5-GB drive (WD205BARTL). The boot promptly gets lost and defaults to fd0. The CD-ROM drive is a standard IDE ATAPI. If I feed the process the floppies it wants, I get as far as the "probing: this may take a while..." screen before the system locks after what sounds like a drive check. A search of your lists/archives for "20.5 GB" and "large drive" turned up a number of messages that are "inaccessible"; didn't notice anything about this in the FAQ either. The BIOS on this machine has been updated for > 8.4 GB support and I already have several other operating systems up and running. Also, before buying the Power Pak, a test boot with downloaded FreeBSD files worked fine (i.e. got to the installation selection menu). But that was before I installed the new drive, which is why it's my prime suspect as opposed to any other hardware. Suggestions? TIA, Henry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message