From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 12:37: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB65B37B404 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F9643E65 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.p.donadio@ieee.org) Received: from ieee.org (pcp01403667pcs.radnor01.pa.comcast.net [68.81.79.155]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3D00MWED5V7S@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:37:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:35:54 -0400 From: Matthew Donadio Subject: Re: 8.4Gb IDE Drive Limit To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3D9B4A9A.A670975A@ieee.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <3D9B37EE.C7FDE801@ieee.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Donadio wrote: > I have an old Pentium Pro system that I would like to install FreeBSD > 4.6.2 on. Unfortunately, its BIOS has the 8.4Gb limit, and I can't find > an upgrade for it. The only drive I have available is a new Maxtor 40Gb > unit. I can boot and install from the CD-ROM, and everything is OK, but > I cannot get it to boot on its own. I have tried some of the > suggestions in the FAQ, but I still cannot get it to work. > > Any ideas would be appreciated (or if anybdy knows a source of new > <8.4Gb drives). Thanks. I should add that I would be happy (I think) if I could boot from CD, and have that image mount my disk. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, especially since I can't boot into my FreeBSD system right now. Thanks. -- Matthew Donadio (m.p.donadio@ieee.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message