From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 19:19:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f3.law14.hotmail.com [64.4.21.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AE737B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:19:12 -0800 Received: from 162.42.111.114 by lw14fd.law14.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 05 Mar 2001 03:19:12 GMT X-Originating-IP: [162.42.111.114] Reply-To: george@vagner.com From: "george vagner" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: larger Ide drive and 4.0 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 03:19:12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2001 03:19:12.0808 (UTC) FILETIME=[0D11C280:01C0A523] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install 4.0 from cdrom onto a maxtor 40.1 gig drive, my mb is a FIC socket 7 style with a pretty new bios, there is no update for the bios yet. I am not new to installations I have about 6 or 7 freebsd machines running. I tried using both dangerously dedicated and compatible modes with the following results dangerously dedicated gives boot 0:ad(0,a)/kernel which is correct but will not boot. compatible mode gives Missing operating system slices are as follows 500M /, 500M /var, 200 M /swap, 10000M /usr leaving 28.8 gig for /web I have another machine exactly the same and i think i had to split it up into 20 gig partitions before i could install. this is a maxtor 40.1 gig drive. the bios does detect the correct size of the disk in bootup. so i want to ask if 4.0 has a limit on bootable IDE partitions? I know its old 4.0 but my 4.1 cd got wrecked and i will cvsup as soon as i get it to install. thanks George _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message