Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:37:21 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Large Drives (18 GB+) And FreeBSD 3.x Message-ID: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFCENIDFAA.don@whtech.com>
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Ok... I'm just about to give up...HELP!!!! I just cannot seem to get my 18 GB UDMA/66 (Quantum, started with IBM, they turned out to be bad) drives to boot. Has anyone done a fresh install on a 18+ GB UDMA/66 drive? Every time I install and reboot, I get a message that it either has no boot loader, or no kernel. I've made sure I've made my root partition small enough to not go over the cylinder limit, I've tried both compatible and "dangerously dedicated" partitons, I've tried the standard boot selector and no boot selector, I've even done the "automatic" layout of the slices on the drive. But every time I reboot after installing it says no /kernel and gives me the boot prompt or says no boot loader. When I did a automatic layout on a small slice (512M) the system started to boot, but then just froze. Has anyone run into this problem before? Unfortunately, I don't have a small drive laying around to do the install on, just my 2 18 GB HDD's. Here's my system config: Abit BP6 Mobo w/ Dual Celeron 366's 128 MB PC100 Ram Quantum 18.2 GB IDE UDMA/66 Drives on the standard IDE Controller (not the UDMA/66 one... all UDMA/66 drives are backwards compatible) Matrox G100 AGP Video 45X IDE CDROM Floppy 10/100 RealTek ethernet PCI I have this same problem with 3.2 and 3.3. BTW... just got my 3.3 CD's yesterday... can anyone boot off of CD1? My 3.2 CD1 was bootable, but the 3.3 one isn't... Was there a manufacturing mistake? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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