Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:09:58 -0500 From: Henry Sobotka <sobotka@axess.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with large drives? Message-ID: <3A0FAFE6.7FE7@axess.com>
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I'm trying to install from Power Pak v4 (April 2000) onto a recently purchased 20.5-GB drive (WD205BARTL). The boot promptly gets lost and defaults to fd0. The CD-ROM drive is a standard IDE ATAPI. If I feed the process the floppies it wants, I get as far as the "probing: this may take a while..." screen before the system locks after what sounds like a drive check. A search of your lists/archives for "20.5 GB" and "large drive" turned up a number of messages that are "inaccessible"; didn't notice anything about this in the FAQ either. The BIOS on this machine has been updated for > 8.4 GB support and I already have several other operating systems up and running. Also, before buying the Power Pak, a test boot with downloaded FreeBSD files worked fine (i.e. got to the installation selection menu). But that was before I installed the new drive, which is why it's my prime suspect as opposed to any other hardware. Suggestions? TIA, Henry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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