From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 23: 8:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.ASARian.org (pooh.ASARian.org [216.21.171.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518E537B401 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 23:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fuzzy@localhost.ASARian.org [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.ASARian.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4P61BN30843; Sat, 25 May 2002 02:01:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:01:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Fuzzy To: Terje Oseberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader Hard Disk Size Limitations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes Organization: ASARian Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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