Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 13:58:30 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Bill" <bwoods2@uswest.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Message-ID: <00e301b42776$5ae928e0$c4ebfea9@josh> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051043390.1655-100000@alpha.gplsucks.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill" <bwoods2@uswest.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:52 AM 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... > Perhaps there is a BIOS flash for the motherboard that will let it see the drive as a 8.4gig anyways. Josh > Bill > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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