From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 7:49:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6792B37BF97 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from josh (hutch-838.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.166]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA07553; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:49:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00e301b42776$5ae928e0$c4ebfea9@josh> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Bill" , References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 13:58:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill" To: 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