From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 16:55:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd01.granitepost.com (fbsd01.granitepost.com [209.150.104.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC5B37B627 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:55:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clabrown@granitepost.com) Received: from thunder (thunder.granitepost.com [209.150.104.140]) by fbsd01.granitepost.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA24076; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:41:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clarence Brown" To: "'Bill'" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:52:49 -0400 Message-ID: <002201bfe6dc$21078dc0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:53 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > > 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 > I had similar problems with an old 486-50 which wouldn't work right with the Large IDE drive I was trying to install. I solved the problem by installing a special bios extension board in an ISA slot, which provided bios extensions to address large hard drives. I picked the board up for about $20 - $30 at Office Depot or CompUSA (I don't remember it's been a while). After that the system understood how to deal with large hard drives and I had no more problems. Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message