From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 27 08:51:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA02613 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 08:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from txcc.net (txcc.net [205.218.183.157]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02608 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from litteken@localhost) by txcc.net (8.7.2/8.6.9) id KAA08168; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:49:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:49:24 -0600 (CST) From: TAL To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HELP FreeBSD won't boot off of EIDE In-Reply-To: <199512270239.TAA13615@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, Blair Schmittel wrote: > Hello. > > I have a 1.6 gig WD HDD and a GSI EIDE controller. > > I installed the drive and the BIOS picked up the 1.6 gig. The GSI BIOS didn't. I installed Windows95 on the first 503 meg (It was all dos would see). And then I installed FreeBSD on the remaining 1+ gig. I rebooted the computer and it gave me this message: > > Boot: > Error: c:1024 > 1023 (BIOS limit) > ya the system bios is limited to 1024 cilenders 500 megs is as big as it goes with out a new bios, a bios on your eide card to handle it, or an overlay file.. i am not sure how it would work for dos and bsd but that is what is going on.. ig the GSI card has a built on bios i would RTFM on it and set it up..