From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 19:24:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8556037B401 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB5443FA3 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:24:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from h-68-164-77-174.snvacaid.covad.net ([68.164.77.174] helo=brandybuck.home) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19mOq7-0001dz-00; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:24:47 -0400 From: David Johnson Organization: Usermode To: rd Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:31:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308082130.09159.david@usermode.org> <3F37CDF0.10603@bifurcating.net> In-Reply-To: <3F37CDF0.10603@bifurcating.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308111931.13127.david@usermode.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really large hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 02:24:54 -0000 On Monday 11 August 2003 10:10 am, rd wrote: > I tried installing 4.8 to a Powerspec box with a 120G drive. The > floppies wouldn't even load. > 5.1 would install and boot, but as soon as I recompiled kernel > installed and reboooted it wouldn't boot kept hanging at HD. Not good news :-( But since 5.1 did boot with the default generic kernel, I'm hoping that it was a problem in the kernel configuration, and that I can get around it. Unfortunately, smaller harddrives are becoming increasingly rare, -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org