From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 10:41:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA28961 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:41:28 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA28956 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:41:25 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA18021; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:37:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511071837.LAA18021@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IDE disk > 500MB To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:37:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511070555.FAA03216@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 7, 95 05:55:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 737 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Which translation software are you using? It's highly likely that you won't > be able to install FreeBSD in this situation, unfortunately. The basic > problem is that the BIOS can't boot an operating system that is located > beyond the 500M point. > > It's more complicated than that, of course, but that's the basis of the > problem. The common workaround I recommend is to load the DOS MBR that hooks INT 13 from OnTrack systems, then use the fbsdboot.com program to boot from DOS. There is a more clever way around the problem, but it requires hacking code, and I haven't bothered yet. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.