Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:53:55 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <20020702075355.GB48157@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> References: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO>
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--ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:25:04PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote: > Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. >=20 > I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version > 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new > Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many > times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x. >=20 > The partition editor and disklabel only see 8056MB of my 120GB drive. In > other words, I am being stopped by the 8.4GB barrier. Obviously, Asus' > new motherboard supports IDE drives larger than 8.4GB. Following some > suggestions, I wrote a slice and disklabels to the drive at 8.4GB. This > did not help. The drive is still only being recognized at 8.4GB. >=20 > Any suggestions how to overcome the problem are appreciated. I need to > very badly copy some data from a FireWire drive with FAT32 partitions > onto the new FreeBSD installation before 6 AM PDT. >=20 Set it up to the dangerously dedicated mode covering the entire disk, using the `F' key and answering `No' to the forthcoming question, while in the slice editor. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9IVwTUkv4P6juNwoRAtJmAJ9+1VnHdYIkr3oXoJIGMtRrQ9UEcwCggCh6 J31aBI7hGvf/NNrh+8RvBSU= =BLDp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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