From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 21:13:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2778237B401 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44F26A80A; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:13:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43727542D for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:13:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:13:06 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting off Large Drives Message-ID: <20020623140642.E21207-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have an oldish machine and just got it a new HD. I put the new drive in and fdisk/disklabel/newfsed from my existing drive. I then installed world onto it. Problem is I can't boot from it. I have swapped cables over so it is now master on the primary controller. The machine tries to boot but only gets as far as the boot manager (I have partitioned so I can install -CURRENT when I get a chance). At this point it freezes (it sees the paritions however). If I boot off a floppy I can tell the loader to load the kernel from the drive and everything comes up fine but obviously this isn't ideal. So does anyone know if this is a BIOS limitation or if I've just screwed up? The drive in question is ~40GB (ATA) and the machine is a P100 so you can guess the age. It boots find off an 8GB drive. Any workarounds (apart from a floppy disk)? Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message