Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:47:46 +0300 From: Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? Message-ID: <3B77B052.8090003@sigtrap.com>
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Hi, We have a old P133 sitting in our lab and I tried to install FreeBSD on it. Its old HD was broken, so I had to fire it up with a 40GB Quantum Fireball disk. Now the only way to boot that computer was to disable that drive in the BIOS, and then continue normally with the FreeBSD installation as it doesn't care what the BIOS has to say about the drives connected to the system. Anyways installation was succesfull and I'm able to boot that drive from a newer computer. I got that HD to the boot loader too from the old PC by manually configuring it to look like a 8GB drive. However when I see the boot prompt and try pressing F1 the computer beeps once and then completely freezes. Is there any way to get that thing up and running with a bigger disk than 8GB? I tried booting it with grub too, but I'm not familiar with it, anyways it crashed too after typing 'kernel /boot/loader' which is why a think it's crashing in the loader not in grub or easyboot. So is there any bootloader available that could scan the disks data for itself and pass them to the loader? Any suggestions on getting it to boot are welcome. Thanks Edvard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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