Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:01:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org> To: Terje Oseberg <oseberg@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader Hard Disk Size Limitations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0205250158070.30415-100000@pooh.ASARian.org> In-Reply-To: <F55EXuztk9v9Qggq8tO00006943@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 May 2002, Terje Oseberg wrote: > About a year ago, I installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto a 60 gig hard drive and thus > discovered that the Boot Loader does not support very large hard disks. > > Now it appears that FreeBSD 4.5 is available, but after searching google and > freebsd.org and all the release notes from 4.0 to 4.5, I've found nothing > that says anything about hard disk size limitations. > > A year ago when I installed FreeBSD 4.0 on a 60GB hard disk, and found that > the boot loader didn't work, my solution was to have FreeBSD boot from a > 100Meg hard drive and use the 60GB for all the other partitions. This worked > fine, but this time there will be no room for any extra hard drives in the > system. making a small partition at the start of the large hard drive didn't work? It worked for me with 4.4-release. maybe make a 200mb partition for / on the big drive, so the bios and the boot loader can find code. Fuz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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