From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 09:30:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06544 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06524 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by central.picker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0upGJ9-0004s1C; Sat, 10 Aug 96 11:50 EDT Received: from elmer.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13439; Sat, 10 Aug 96 11:49:26 EDT Received: by elmer.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA12606; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:44:18 -0400 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Message-Id: <199608101544.LAA12606@elmer.picker.com> Subject: Re: Does BSD support LBA mode? To: chu@ipoline.com (Frank Chu) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:44:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <320CA50B.2FDE@ipoline.com> from "Frank Chu" at Aug 10, 96 11:04:43 am Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com Organization: Picker International, CT Division X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hi I just purchased a copy of FreeBSD on CD and found it won't boot with >my computer. My question is: does FreeBSD support harddisk LBA mode? I >tried to install it with a 270MB and a 800MB hd and both won't boot. If >BSD really doesn't support LBA mode what should I do? Without LBA my >computer won't see harddisk >528 MB. I can confirm that FreeBSD works fine with BIOS LBA. I have two versions of FreeBSD installed on my machine. One at the back of a 1.2 Gig EIDE disk, and one at the end of a 1.6Gig EIDE disk. The second install, by the way, is completely above 528MB. Been running this setup for over a year without any problems. Randall Hopper rhh@ct.picker.com