Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bryan Batten <BryanBatten@CompuServe.COM> Cc: Questions for FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Detecting 3rd IDE Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208150928.13271N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712072341_MC2-2B1A-EE5@compuserve.com>
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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bryan Batten wrote: > I recently bought a 2.1GB EIDE drive, which is too big for my BIOS to > autodetect. Now, it works just fine with Linux, but is totally invisible to > the FreeBSD 2.2.2 Installation Procedure. > > I would think that there would be enough intelligence in the installation > kernel to be able to ignore the BIOS and communicate directly to the drive > in question. It should. Hit <scroll lock> at the main menu and scroll back through the boot messages. Make sure the second controller and the disk are found. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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