From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 5:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB64137B520 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 05:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from judah (najiba-1-150.mdm.fox.execpc.com [169.207.127.24]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id HAA05276 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:11:18 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" To: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Old BIOS, large HD, and FreeBSD 4.0R Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:11:13 -0500 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've got an old 486 with phoenix BIOS dated 1992. I tried to install an new WD 17.4GB hard drive and set the Master drive to auto-detect. Upon boot the BIOS tells me there's an error auto-detecting the drive. If I set drive0 to not installed and continue with 4.0R installation, the probe finds the drive on ad0, and can read/write during an install. It looks like my BIOS simply will not recognize this HD. Is there anyway around it? Can I boot off a "FreeBSD boot floppy" and then load the kernel from the hard drive. I know the obvious question is why am I wasting my time with this old box? Well, it was free, I got a great deal on two Western Digital HDs, and this machine's only purpose in life is to run FreeBSD and act as a hard-drive back-up device. Thanks for all the help. -- Doug Poland dpoland@execpc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message