Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:30:40 -0800 From: "K. Lewin" <lewink@mindspring.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Possible Large HD preventing boot? Message-ID: <059f01c3e0a8$dfb9a900$50e511ac@RSV000377>
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Hello- I have a 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird processor on a Shuttle AK12a = motherboard. =20 I recently installed a Hitachi 180GB HDD as my primary hard drive. No = other hard drives are currently installed in the system. =20 When trying to boot a FreeBSD floppy (with kern.flp) or a CD-RW with the = installation iso, it freezes on the cursor that alternates from = |,/,-\,|, etc. No error messages, just stops on one of the alternating = characters while trying to load/boot the kernel. =20 I currently have a 10Gig primary partition in which WinXP Home edition = resides. I left the rest of the hard drive unallocated for the FreeBSD = install. =20 I know my problem is not installation media, I'm suspecting it's the = large hard drive and it's incompatibility with FreeBSD. I have tried = FreeBSD 5.2 and 4.9 with the exact same results. =20 I also know the drive itself is in fine working order, WinXP Home = installed fine and is working fine. =20 I would really appreciate any suggestions, after installing FreeBSD 5.2 = on another AMD K6 machine, I am impressed thus far. =20 Also, my question is not how to boot FreeBSD from any specific = partition, I am getting stopped just trying to start the installation = process. =20 Thanks very much, Kevin
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