From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 12:44: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9728937B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 180E243E75 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 12171 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2002 19:47:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2002 19:47:41 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.1.18) with SMTP id M2002100212474012795 ; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:47:40 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g92Ji0nr015752; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:00 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g92JhwWZ006566; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210021944.g92JhwWZ006566@axp.csl.sri.com> To: Matthew Donadio Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8.4Gb IDE Drive Limit In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Donadio of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:35:54 EDT." <3D9B4A9A.A670975A@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:43:57 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett 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 Matt, How did you partition the 40Gb drive? - Mike > Matthew Donadio wrote: > > I have an old Pentium Pro system that I would like to install FreeBSD > > 4.6.2 on. Unfortunately, its BIOS has the 8.4Gb limit, and I can't find > > an upgrade for it. The only drive I have available is a new Maxtor 40Gb > > unit. I can boot and install from the CD-ROM, and everything is OK, but > > I cannot get it to boot on its own. I have tried some of the > > suggestions in the FAQ, but I still cannot get it to work. > > > > Any ideas would be appreciated (or if anybdy knows a source of new > > <8.4Gb drives). Thanks. > > I should add that I would be happy (I think) if I could boot from CD, > and have that image mount my disk. I'm not sure how to go about doing > this, especially since I can't boot into my FreeBSD system right now. > > Thanks. > > -- > Matthew Donadio (m.p.donadio@ieee.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message