From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 10:52:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.gplsucks.org (alpha.gplsucks.org [63.227.213.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BDC37BB7C for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwoods2@uswest.net) Received: from localhost (bwoods2@localhost) by alpha.gplsucks.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e65HqW201692 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:52:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been given a REAL OLD P100 w/32 megs memory, so I think cool, small home lan mail server. Well I happen to have this 10gig ide hanging around, that I am not useing,(eveyrthing else I have is SCSI) so I pop it in, change BIOS to autodetect the HD and proceed to HD install. The partition scheme is / is 400, /var is 2gig, /usr is 7gig and rest swap. Well, anyway, the ftp install goes fine , I goto reboot and NADA, it starts to boot and the spinner just stops.......wont boot for crap. I am almost positive its the 10 gig HD in it thaqts causing the problem. Like I said its a old system, doesnt even have pci slots. I took a look in BIOS tyo see if I could set the HD to LBA, no such luck. Now, I do have some software that I got with the drive, to make old systems see large drives, Maxtor HD Max or something, but I am almost sure that wont work with freebsd. So, any gurus have any suggestions for me on how to get this to work... Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message