Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:34:03 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Chris Whitehouse" <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] Message-ID: <d7195cff0801262334w2862019br72ebd9cfbc39372a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479A896C.2010001@onetel.com> References: <20080125224807.233a2a14@sparrow> <560f92640801251437r3fd38d83xc7ec07841642fa05@mail.gmail.com> <20080125234146.083449bd@sparrow> <560f92640801251505q39b178feh6aa51424c0dff13c@mail.gmail.com> <479A896C.2010001@onetel.com>
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On 25/01/2008, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > 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. Anecdotally, I have an old hp e-server that will not see IDE drives larger than something like 8G. I let the bios autodetect to the wrong value, and it booted just fine and once FreBSD was running the whole 20G drive was perfectly visible and functional. In any case, I suppose the OP could just use a floppy boot disk, like slackware's: http://slackware.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slackware/slackware/isolinux/sbootmgr/ http://tinyurl.com/2evgaa Which should bypass any (most) moronic bioses. -- --
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