From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 22:22:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D0A37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1206) id 5E6591369F; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:22:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:22:32 -0400 From: Bob Bomar To: Andrew Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off Large Drives Message-ID: <20020623052232.GA18799@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020623140642.E21207-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020623140642.E21207-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:13:06PM +1000, Andrew wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I have an oldish machine and just got it a new HD. I put the new drive in > and fdisk/disklabel/newfsed from my existing drive. I then installed world > onto it. >=20 > Problem is I can't boot from it. I have swapped cables over so it is now > master on the primary controller. The machine tries to boot but only gets > as far as the boot manager (I have partitioned so I can install -CURRENT > when I get a chance). At this point it freezes (it sees the paritions > however). >=20 > If I boot off a floppy I can tell the loader to load the kernel from the > drive and everything comes up fine but obviously this isn't ideal. >=20 > So does anyone know if this is a BIOS limitation or if I've just screwed > up? The drive in question is ~40GB (ATA) and the machine is a P100 so you > can guess the age. It boots find off an 8GB drive. >=20 > Any workarounds (apart from a floppy disk)? >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Andrew >=20 If this was a BIOS problem, which I had a while ago with a 40 gig in a P166, then the BIOS would not even see the drive. --=20 /----------------------------------------------------------------\ | Bob Bomar bulldog@fxp.org http://www.bomar.us/~bob | |=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D| | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org | \----------------------------------------------------------------/ --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9FVsY9Jm/aTrtdKoRAob+AJ9gh/Z3RNDiciDqw6ofRs051fluTQCcCQkt R37UKiucGJWEopByUGgw1jM= =ToKn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message