Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:55:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More large drive install q's Message-ID: <39298290.A089C30D@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005220242300.4839-100000@hobbes>
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Brad Waite wrote: > > Hi guys, > > First off, thanks for all the suggestions so far. > > The only way I've been able to get 4.0 to boot on my 40gig IDE is to NOT > dangerously dedicate the drive to FBSD. If I do dedicate it, the install goes > fine, but it just won't boot. I suppose the obvious answer is, "Well just > don't dangerously dedicate the drive to FBSD," but I'm curious why this is > happening. As a side note, if fdisk creates a 'true partition entry', it > leaves about 500MB at the end o' the drive unallocated, and no matter what I > try, it won't let me add it to the slice. Can anyone explain these issues? > > Heh. And here I thought I knew something about FBSD's dealings w/disks. :) I got into this problem when I first started using FreeBSD in 1999. It came down to the bios not recognizing the drive in DD mode. You could watch it count the memory and then it would do an inquire on the drives but the drives never gave the response it wanted and it just sat there. I wondered if this was at the time the bios was recognizing the size of the drive but in DD mode that drive may not know how big it is. At the time I had 3 HD's with about 11GB of space and none of them could be DD. Leave the DOS LBA mbr on the HD and the system was happy and would boot. I ended up continuing to do that because when I pull a drive out, it may go onto a Windows based system and I don't have to play with it on FreeBSD before I remove it. Kent > > -Brad > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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