Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:20 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] Message-ID: <479A896C.2010001@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640801251505q39b178feh6aa51424c0dff13c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080125224807.233a2a14@sparrow> <560f92640801251437r3fd38d83xc7ec07841642fa05@mail.gmail.com> <20080125234146.083449bd@sparrow> <560f92640801251505q39b178feh6aa51424c0dff13c@mail.gmail.com>
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Nerius Landys wrote: > > > The earler comment about the disk being too big might be the issue. Update > the motherboard's BIOS to the latest revision. You may have to do some > digging to find this for an old motherboard. Tell us if that helps. > _______________________________________________ Some motherboards had an upper limit on hard disk size which I think was 32gb. Some drives have a jumper to limit the apparent size to 32gb (if that was the size). Also I no longer have hardware to test this on but if it is a BIOS problem I believe if you could put the hard disk in a newer machine for the install it would then boot in the older machine as FreeBSD accesses the disk directly, not through the BIOS. Chris > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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