From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 6 00:59:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03717 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 00:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from sos@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03710; Wed, 6 May 1998 00:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805060759.AAA03710@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I use IDE HD. more than 8G In-Reply-To: <000001bd78be$08bcc430$641146d1@roaming.minotaur.com> from "Jon E. Mitchiner" at "May 6, 98 03:10:22 am" To: jon@minotaur.com (Jon E. Mitchiner) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 00:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Jon E. Mitchiner who wrote: > > But , the boot disk can only allocate 8G disk space , I've > > tried to edit > > geometry , bot I can't > > label disk space over 8G. > > Does your BIOS support drives larger than 8.4GB? You might have to upgrade > your bios in order for it to support > 8.4GB so you might want to check with > your motherboard manufacturer for a update. It doesn't matter for FreeBSD to work, its only a problem if you have multiple OS's installed and one of those would go behind the 8.4G point, then the fdisk label cannot point at it :) However FreeBSD can be install as the last OS on the disk, that will work as long as the bootblock & root fs is below the 8.4G mark... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message