Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: bootstrap Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960722135309.11997t-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199607221957.VAA05192@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Veggy Vinny wrote: > > > Yeah, probably... :) Does the bootstrap work on an EIDE LBA > > FreeBSD slice in -current? > > You cannot have an ``LBA FreeBSD slice'', only a BIOS using LBA > translation. > > I know that our new notebook is setup to use LBA mode in the BIOS and > that it boots FreeBSD ok. However, my experience with IDE is rather > limited, so i haven't thought about the limitations and constraints. What I mean was that this was a new drive and I was trying to back up my old drive to the new drive and everything seems working except the new drive won't boot FreeBSD.... I put the drive in the Bios with LBA translation and then installed FreeBSD after the 540 meg DOS partition but where is the problem exactly? Vincehome | help
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