Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:22:07 +0100 From: Karl-Petter =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5kesson?= <kalle@sics.se> To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installing FreeBSD on a 20Gb disc on a laptop with old BIOS Message-ID: <3C204E2F.982FEE60@sics.se>
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Hi, I have an old IBM thinkpad 560 that I want to runt FreeBSD on. The original drive is only 2Gb so I upgraded to a 20Gb. Now it turned out that the BIOS was to old to support this and the laptop locked-up during the initialization phase before booting. DDO(Dynamic Drive Overlay) from OnTrack solved this since it tricks the BIOS to believe it has a much smaller drive. But.... It seems to trick FDISK in the FreeBSD installation as well. I have tried a lot of different ways to come around this but somehow I always end up with a non-working system :-( If I just install DDO on the drive and then start the FREEBSD installation FDISK thinks the drive starts at sector -63 and gets very confused. I solved this by letting the IBM Disk Manager, the software that I use to install DDO, to create a FAT partition in the beginning of the drive, only 100 MB. Now I can use the rest of the disk in FDISK to make it a FREEBSD partition, but it wont boot. Changing the first 100MB partition to FreeBSD type, does not help, the label editor cant use it, says "Unable to create partition. Too big?". Anyone that have succesfully managed to install FreeBSD on a large drive that isnt supported by the BIOS and use the entire disk for FreeBSD? Any tips would be very welcome! Kalle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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