Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:14:47 +0300 From: Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? Message-ID: <3B79CD07.7020302@sigtrap.com> References: <000801c12478$84c0fc40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <01081418461200.03063@mercedes.local.domain>
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I tried installing it with Quantum's Disk Manager, but I couldn't get BSD to recognize over 33.8GB of that disk, so 6GB was wasted, although that was already better than not being able to boot at all. Anyways I found an old 420mb drive and installed my root partition on it and rest of the system on that 40GB Quantum drive and now everything works like a charm. Another interesting fact was that FreeBSD recognized that 40GB Quantum as a 2.1GB disk if it was installed as a slave on the same IDE controller than the 420mb drive. After changing it to secondary master, FreeBSD recognized it as a 40GB drive... That computer seems screwed in many ways as I wasn't able to buildworld on it (signal 11). I had to boot those disks from my own workstation and use it to buildworld and update the system, then put those disks back into that old piece of junk. Anyways thanks for the input! - Edvard Chris Browning wrote: > On Tuesday 14 August 2001 00:20, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>About the only thing I know that will work reliably is to find some old >>IDE disk that's under 8GB and make it C: then put the 40GB drive >>as drive D: >> >>You might possibly get it to run with Disk Manager (or whatever passes >>for Disk Manager that they include with disk drives these days) I've seen >>it done once with FreeBSD. >> >> >> > > I have a bit of experience building mailservers on 486's. I installed on the > 325MB drives they came with, cleaned up the kernel, and then installed a 20GB > drive. The BIOS had no idea what to do with it, so I called it another 325MB > in the BIOS. BSD saw it, knew what it was and it was all downhill from there. > > -------------------- > Chris Browning > brownicm@prokyon.com > -------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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