Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:37:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE disk > 500MB Message-ID: <199511071837.LAA18021@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511070555.FAA03216@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 7, 95 05:55:45 am
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> Which translation software are you using? It's highly likely that you won't > be able to install FreeBSD in this situation, unfortunately. The basic > problem is that the BIOS can't boot an operating system that is located > beyond the 500M point. > > It's more complicated than that, of course, but that's the basis of the > problem. The common workaround I recommend is to load the DOS MBR that hooks INT 13 from OnTrack systems, then use the fbsdboot.com program to boot from DOS. There is a more clever way around the problem, but it requires hacking code, and I haven't bothered yet. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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