From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 26 01:14:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF3B16A41A for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from smtp1.bethere.co.uk (smtp1.betherenow.co.uk [87.194.0.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD4C13C458 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (87-194-3-32.bethere.co.uk [87.194.3.32]) by smtp1.bethere.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id BFEFB292278 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <479A896C.2010001@onetel.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:20 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080125224807.233a2a14@sparrow> <560f92640801251437r3fd38d83xc7ec07841642fa05@mail.gmail.com> <20080125234146.083449bd@sparrow> <560f92640801251505q39b178feh6aa51424c0dff13c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640801251505q39b178feh6aa51424c0dff13c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:29 -0000 Nerius Landys wrote: > > > The earler comment about the disk being too big might be the issue. Update > the motherboard's BIOS to the latest revision. You may have to do some > digging to find this for an old motherboard. Tell us if that helps. > _______________________________________________ Some motherboards had an upper limit on hard disk size which I think was 32gb. Some drives have a jumper to limit the apparent size to 32gb (if that was the size). Also I no longer have hardware to test this on but if it is a BIOS problem I believe if you could put the hard disk in a newer machine for the install it would then boot in the older machine as FreeBSD accesses the disk directly, not through the BIOS. Chris > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >