From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 11:40:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7B437B63A for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id WAA10118; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:43:58 +0200 Message-ID: <39638158.439930B@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:41:28 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill wrote: > > 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... If the BIOS doesn't know LBA: either replace the BIOS (means another main board), or replace the hard disk. Doesn't really help, sorry -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message